Produce killers in a month- Minister

Minister of the Interior, Papa Owusu Ankomah has given the police a month?s ultimatum to find the killers of three NPP activists who were murdered in Gyakpahili in the Northern region during the 2004 elections.

The Interior Minister was answering a question in parliament on what his ministry is doing on the murder of the three.

Papa Owusu Ankomah faced tough questioning from some members of the minority on his account on the chronology of events that led to the murder of the three.

The three, whose names are given by the Police as the late Yakubu Napari, Anifa Abubakari and Amadu Iddrisualso known as Iran-Iraq were recruited by the NPP parliamentary candidate for Kumbungu, Prince Imoro Andani to monitor the elections in the area.

They were lynched by an irate mob in Gyakpahili after they challenged the eligibility of some young people to vote in the constituency.

Papa Owusu Ankomah told Parliament that Police investigations into the matter have revealed that twelve persons led the attack on the three activists.

He says the twelve are currently in hiding.

But the interior minister incurred the wrath of the MPs when in the course of his submission he veered off the main issue to talk about other related violence in the Kumbungu constituency during the elections.

But Speaker Sakyi Hughes overruled the objections.

The minister was also challenged on his account of events that led to the murder of the three.

Some minority MPs suggested that the minister?s account was not entirely true.