Used weapons, stones and metal to beat us – Bawku residents tell military bakeries

The residents of Bawku in the UPPer East region have given frightening accounts of military brutality, which detail how soldiers used weapons, stones and metal objects to assault them during a night raid.

On Tuesday night, March 18, the military stormed the civil houses in Bawku, redeemed the properties and unleashed severe violence on residents.

It is believed that the raid was in response to the killing of an officer of the armed forces in Ghana, by unidentified guns, Monday, March 17th.

The reports indicated that the officer had been amazed and shot fatally while walking.

Following the military attack, the residents shared the details of the attack. A woman told how the soldiers forcefully entered home and immediately subjected them to beats.

“When I opened the door, they started knocking on me and asked:” Where are the people in this house? “I told them I didn’t have a mother, father or husband and that I live alone.

Another resident described how the soldiers stormed the house around 8:30 pm, attacking him and his brothers without asking questions.

“They didn’t even ask us what happened. They just started to beat us, destroy our properties and take our phones, objects and money,” he said.

He added that some of the soldiers have repeatedly asked: “Do you want to kill a soldier? Do you want to beat a soldier?” Before aging them with weapons, stones and metal objects.

“I was in the house, I did not go out for them to say that we have violated rules or borders leaving around the curfew,” he lamented.

verifications Myjoyonline Albert revealed that civilians, including women, were brutally assaulted. Many men wore deep bruises and signs on their backs, while others remained with visible blood on their body.

Videos also show large -scale destruction by soldiers, vandalizing houses and personal goods.

Residents ask the Government to intervene and implement measures to avoid such an incident again.

They insisted that the army, instead of protecting them during curfew hours, provokes them now suffering.

“We suffer in Bawku. The army should protect us, not beat us,” a resident pleaded.

Meanwhile, the government has held military personnel and drones along the Wale Wale-Bolgatanga highway, in response to a series of armed attacks on the passenger buses in the area.

The Minister of Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, revealed this in Parliament on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, while answering questions of the Parliament member of Wale Wale about increasing robberies and burns of vehicles in the North-East region.

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