Victim of by-election shooting could have damaged leg amputated

A victim of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election shooting said doctors at 37 Military Hospital told him he could lose his leg as the way to save his life.

Ishau Yaro, 37, was shot at close range by some masked men suspected to be National Security officers and his right leg is badly damaged.

Joy News’ Joseph Opoku Gakpo who visited him saw his right leg wrapped in a huge white bandage.

A straight shiny metal has been fixed beside the leg to keep it straight because the bullets scattered the bone in the leg.

“I was screaming before they put me in a pick-up and sent to the hospital,” he told the reporter.The leg has been placed on two supporting pillows to keep it up with blood and watery discharge from the leg.

When he was brought in, doctors told him they may have to amputate the badly damaged limb to keep him alive.

Yaro has already undergone two separate surgeries to help recover the leg and he is expected to undergo a third on Thursday, February 7.Narrating what happened, the footballer said they were at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary aspirant’s house when the masked men came to order them to leave.They asked them why they should leave and just then a disagreement ensued, a warning shot was fired and the men started shooting.

“We did not have arms [as the masked men are claiming] because if we did they couldn’t have matched us. We were more than them,” he said.

The National Security Minister, Bryan Acheampong has admitted he deployed the men.Yaro is married with three children and his family dreads the loss of a fully fit, active and supportive father.