GSTS Alumni Association GAA says it is not pleased with the pace at which the case involving a 17-year-old final student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS), who was allegedly shot by a police officer, is travelling.
The association remarks that it does not see any active interest in ensuring that the true events leading to the death of the final year student, Lawrence Baidoo, and another person, who is at the hospital receiving treatment from gun wounds, is truly uncovered.
“We are not seeing any active interest in the case and as to where it is going. So we think the old students need to stand up to ensure justice takes its full course,” Global Vice President of the Association, Sam Boateng, told our correspondent in an interview.
Mr. Boateng mentioned that there were still nagging questions begging to be answered which he believes could help make the case clearer.
For example, he claimed that the lady accompanying the police officer alleged to have shot at the deceased and his friends are yet to be questioned.
“There are some statements we have heard from the lawyer for the policeman that make us to believe that maybe the gun that was used may be another issue altogether and we are also not hearing much from the police,” he added.
Even though legal proceedings have just commenced, Mr Boateng alleged that “some of the things are self-evident” to allow the prosecution move fast.
“Our lawyer was in court when the case was called but we thought a lot more should have come from the police investigation.”
“We want everything to be fairly open because we are also doing our own investigations and there are certain things we are hearing that we feel need to be addressed.”
Among steps taken by the Association to ensure justice is served, a group of lawyers made up of old students have been brought together to lead and offer legal advice and strategy as the case proceeds.
To this end, one Giant Lawyer, Giant Ebo Donkor, has spoken with the deceased’s father and offered his services.
The association says it will also organise press engagements from time to time in a bid to ensure the case is followed to its logical conclusion.
17-year-old Lawrence Baidoo, a final year student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS), was allegedly shot and killed by a police constable in Shama.
The constable, popularly known in the area as Shaibu, is believed to have shot the student at about 8:30pm on Friday, December 22, 2017.
Reports suggest he opened fire on the deceased and four other friends when he came across them on their way to a rap concert at Shama Junction.
One of the five students, Caroline Daddie, narrated that the police officer, without any provocation, opened fire on them while calling them armed robbers.
Today Correspondent