The Ghana Armed Forces says the soldier who was badly beaten by unidentified persons at Krofofrom in Kumasi on Saturday, is not dead contrary to media reports.
Private Appiah-Kubi Hayford "is currently responding well to treatment at a military medical facility while the incident is being thoroughly investigated", the Army said in a statement signed by Lt. Col. M. Atintande, on behalf of the Director of Public Relations and issued in Accra yesterday.
The Army advised the general public to desist from mob attacks on individuals be they security personnel or civilians and no matter how provocative they might be, and instead hand over such suspects to the police.
The statement further reminded the general public that the unauthorised use of military uniforms and accoutrements was prohibited under NLCD 177 (1967).
Private Appiah-Kubi Hayford, in the company of two other soldiers, was said to have been set upon by an angry mob after the three forcibly got a young man to take off the military uniform he wore.
They had attempted to take the boy with them in the taxi they drove, but a group of young men in the area engaged them in a heated argument, forcing two of the soldiers to flee and abandon Hayford, whose seemingly lifeless body after the battery, was said to have been dumped at the scene of the incident.
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