A 35-year-old man, Mukila Ziblim, has tragically died from gunshot wounds he sustained from a stray bullet during an attack by some youth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on a collation center.
The attack, which took place on December 8th, 2024, also resulted in the burning of the storeroom of the West Gonja Municipal Electoral Commission.
The Savannah Regional Peace Council Chairman, Rev. Fr. Lazarus Annyereh, visited the hospital where the victim was taken, only to be shown his lifeless body.
Hospital officials confirmed that Mukila Ziblim was brought in with a bullet wound to the left side of his chest and passed away within an hour of arrival.
His corpse has since been deposited in the hospital’s morgue.
It would be recalled that the Damongo Collation Centre came under attack today by some NDC youth who vandalized all electoral materials, including laptops, pink sheets, ballot boxes, and papers, among others.
The Commission’s storeroom containing valuable documents was set ablaze.
But the police, in response, opened live bullets on the angry youth, leading to the shooting and subsequent death of Mukila Ziblim.
The Chairman of the Savannah Regional Peace Council, Rev. Fr. Lazarus Annyereh, expressed disappointment in the police and political leadership for the loss of Mukila Ziblim’s life.
The leadership of NDC, when they came, asked them to go into negotiations with the police, but at the end of the day, I was blaming the military, and so they withdrew their responsibility just to make sure that the youth withdrew”.
“So, have they [NDC executives] kept their part of the contract of peace? And I don’t want to blame only the police, I want to blame the leadership of NDC.”
Revered Father Lazarus Annyereh bemoaned the fact that the incident at the EC office would go a long way to create a bad image for Damongo and further tag the region as a violent region.
