General News of Monday, 22 November 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comCaptain Kojo Tsikata (Rtd) narrated his encounter with Francis PokuThis was during the National Reconciliation CommissionCaptain Kojo Tsikata (Rtd) died on Saturday, November 20When former President John Agyekum Kufuor established the National Reconciliation Commission in January 2002 by an Act of Parliament, the late Captain Kojo Tsikata (Rtd), who appeared as a witness gave vivid testimony about his encounter with former Minister for National Security [2001-2009], Francis Poku, during the days of the revolution. According to the late Tsikata (Rtd), Francis Poku, who was also a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) ordered that he [Tsikata] was beaten and tortured until he went unconscious in 1975. Tsikata narrated to the NRC that, at the time of the incident, Mr Poku had ordered him to sign some papers confessing to a crime of attempting to topple the SMC regime but he [Tsikata] refused. Read below the full account of Captain Kojo Tsikata (Rtd) at NRC culled out from mynewsgh reportSubsequently, I was told I was being investigated on suspicion of involvement in a plot to overthrow the government. I was taken, on a number of occasions clad only in my blanket, before a panel chaired by Mr. Francis Poku, at the time a Deputy Superintendent of Police at the Special Branch.
