Shaida Huudu swearing an oath to testify
SHAIDA HUUDU, the wife of the late, Ibrahim Mohammed aka ‘Macho Kaaka’, says the constant leakage of rots in society on social media, claimed the life of her husband.
According to her, some people, in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ejura, for some time, felt uncomfortable about the social media activities of her deceased husband.
She claimed that such people, whose names she could not disclose, had cautioned Kaaka to refrain from his activities, else they would deal with him.
The widow claimed that Kaaka, informed her about the verbal threats that he (Kaaka) had been receiving threats from these so-called NPP members she could not name.
Shaida Huudu therefore stated that the constant threats and the circumstances that led to Kaaka’s death, shows that he was killed because of his social media activities.
She made the disclosure yesterday when she appeared before the three-member committee, probing the mayhem at Ejura, which claimed two lives in Kumasi, following the death of Kaaka.
Shaida Huudu was asked by the committee about what might have accounted for the demise of her late husband, and she retorted that “it may be his social media activities.”
She said her husband, who was a popular social media activist in Ejura, posted several videos exposing rots in the community on social media and by so doing; he may have stepped on some toes.
According to her, the husband was a staunch NPP member in Ejura but his association with the NPP did not deter him from exposing what was not going on well in Ejura.
She therefore, reiterated that she was convinced that some people that did not support her late husband’s cause, worked to eliminate him.
Key Question
Shaida Huudu during the interaction, asked the committee about their real motive in conducting the probe, and in response, the committee said they were not investigating Kaaka’s death.
Chairman of the committee, Justice George Kingsley Koomson, said “the police would investigate the death of Kaaka and apprehend the culprits to face prosecution.”
“The committee would also probe the events and occurrences that led to the riots and make recommendations for appropriate action to be taken to stop its reoccurrence,”
She responded that “conduct your investigations well, and find out the one who caused my husband’s death. The one who testified against my husband’s brother should be called. We live in the same house. She told me that she didn’t see anything, but she said she only heard the sound of my husband entering the house. She didn’t see anything because all of us went to the scene to see what had happened.”
She added that “there was one of the young men who got up and threatened him that they had been warning him to stop what he has been doing, but he doesn’t want to listen. My husband asked him what he was complaining about, and he told him that all the posts he makes on social media have been tarnishing the image of the party, so they want him to stop.”
“My husband asked him how he knew about his activities on Facebook since he (the young man) doesn’t use a Smartphone. The young man got angry and wanted to fight my husband,” the widow recounted.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi