A five-member independent committee has been inaugurated to investigate controversies surrounding the killing of seven people from a Zongo community in Kumasi by the police at Manso Nkwanta in the Ashanti Region.

The committee, inaugurated which was inaugurated by the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, on Monday, July, 30,2018 has one month to submit their report to the Regional Minister.

The committee is made up of representatives from the Christian and the Muslim community; the BNI, as well as the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, and will be chaired by a Justice of the Superior Court in the region.

There has been tension in the area following the killing of the seven residents the police claim were armed robbers.

The seven were believed to be part of eight suspected robbers whose attack led to the death of a Police Officer with the SWAT Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command at Ayirebikrom near Manso Nkwanta.

Residents of the area who said the seven were not armed robbers burnt car tyres to protest the killings.

They also blocked all roads leading to the area from the Kumasi Central mosque.

Relatives of the seven say the Kumasi police framed the deceased persons by planting weapons on them after killing them.

They insist the seven men were not robbers but were instead killed in cold blood.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase and Minority Chief Whip in Parliament, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak had earlier said he was “deeply worried” about the government’s delay in probing the recent killing of some alleged robbers in his constituency.

“I’m deeply worried that our 7 brothers who were killed by Police in Ashanti region are still not buried 10 (ten) days today and the Independent Committee promised by Government is also still not composed. We are trying very hard not to make comments that will give any impression about political actors trying to take advantage of what is happening, yet I have a big responsibility to represent every constituent of mine regardless of his/her back ground.” said Muntaka.