[ 2012-07-20 ]

Lt. Col. Larry Gbevlo Lartey, National Security Coordinator

Hohoe clashes: Gbevlo-Lartey denies shoot to kill claims
The National Security Coordinator, Lieutenant
Colonel Larry Gbevlo Lartey has denied claims that
he ordered security officials to shoot and kill
Gbi citizens during the recent ethnic clashes in
Hohoe.

The Gbi Traditional Council in a strongly worded
statement on Thursday claimed that the national
security coordinator used coercive powers such as
curfew, the deployment and ordering of soldiers to
shoot on sight to intimidate residents of Hohoe
during the clashes that ensued between the Muslim
community and the indigenes of the community.

Speaking to XYZ News, a divisional chief of the
Gbi traditional council, Togbui Worde said the
actions of Mr. Gbevlo Lartey when he visited the
area during the conflict suggested that there was
a deliberate attempt to intimidate the indigenes
of Hohoe and offer protection to the Zongo
community.

“The national security coordinator was on the
ground in Hohoe, he mobilized some of the chiefs
and intimidated them" Togbui Worde said.

He added that “he went on to pick some of the
market women, warning them all in an attempt to
bring the Zongo people back to Hohoe. Even though
what we are demanding as our relics and regalia
has not been not been brought and nobody is
interested in calling them to give us back our
regalia”.

But, Mr. Gbevlo Lartey speaking to XYZ News
stated that the accusations against him are
unfounded.

Source - RadioXYZonline.

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