Sherif Imoro, 21, has been recognised as the soldier who was reportedly slain by a crowd in Ashaiman Taifa last Saturday.He was a trumpet player in the Ghana Military Forces Band and was stationed in Sunyani, Bono Region.He was in Accra for a military course and had been visiting his folks in Ashaiman every Friday for the past three weeks.
Last Friday would have been the third time he was returning home when he was approached by a group that murdered him.
So according his father, Awudu Imoro, Sherif Imoro was born on June 3, 2001, in Ashaiman. He joined the Ghana Military Forces in October 2021, was trained at Daboya, and was sent to Sunyani right after graduating.
According to his father, he finished his basic and junior high school years at Ashaiman and his secondary schooling at Akwamuman SHS in 2017.
He was on his way home last Friday when there was considerable traffic in the neighborhood, so he alighted at Ashaiman Taifa near the court building.
It was in that area that he was killed by his assailants.
According to other sources, the group mistaken him for a robber.
Awudu Imoro, the father, explained the facts and provided a little history on his son, saying that in early January this year, Sherif called his mother and informed the family that he would be in Accra in the first week of February for a course. According to the father, Sherif promised them that when he arrived in Accra, he would have the chance to see them at the house on a Friday, and so he had been coming home every Friday for the previous three weeks.
At least 72 persons were arrested and detained by troops who invaded Ashaiman early Tuesday morning after a crowd reportedly murdered Sherif Imoro. According to the Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Ernest Henry Norgbey, he has been informed that the soldiers took the people they arrested away.
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