Soldiers Allegedly Brutalise Orphan In Talensi, Lash Him With Steel Cables

• Military officers have allegedly brutalised an orphan in Talensi, a district in Ghana’s Upper East Region
• The 15-year-old orphan was reportedly lashed by the soldiers using a steel cable
• The boy said he was taking a video selfie with his uncle’s phone when two soldiers accosted him

Soldiers have allegedly brutalised an orphan boy in Talensi in the Upper East Region,

The 15-year-old victim was reportedly lashed by soldiers who were using steel cables.

Eyewitnesses said the military men involved in the alleged brutality are members of an army task force stationed inside the yard of Earl International Group Gold Limited, a Chinese mining firm.

The boy told Media Without Borders he was taking a selfie with his uncle’s phone when two soldiers came from behind him and seized the phone.

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He said the soldiers claimed he was filming them and took him into the Chinese company’s yard, where, according to him, he was tortured.

But the Chinese company’s public relations unit has denied the basic-six pupil of the Sheaga Primary School was beaten and wounded in the company’s yard.

A wave of public anger trailed the October excesses as a clamour for the perpetrators to be brought to book ripped through the air nationwide.

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Source: YEN.com.gh