Soldiers in ‘doctored’ social media videos are not on Operation COVID Safety – GAF

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says videos trending on social media that sought to suggest that some soldiers on the Operation COVID Safety were manhandling citizens are fake.

Operation COVID Safety is the joint security task force enforcing the lockdown in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus disease.

A statement issued by the public relations directorate of the GAF said the videos are doctored and re-cycled videos of past events, some of which did not even originate in Ghana.

The GAF said it is convinced that the deliberate circulation of what they described as unrelated and doctored social media material is a malicious attempt by some people to cast the operation in a bad light.

The Armed Forces in the statement also assured the public that genuine incidents of the wrongful use of force by soldiers attached to the operation will be investigated and those found culpable disciplined.