{"id":719488,"date":"2019-10-09T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T11:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/09\/motor-riders-gun-down-man-on-kanda-highway\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T11:02:43","slug":"motor-riders-gun-down-man-on-kanda-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/09\/motor-riders-gun-down-man-on-kanda-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor Riders Gun Down Man On Kanda Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>SHOT! Abdul Kadiri Mohammed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rider and his pillion on<br \/>\nMonday evening shot a forex bureau operator on the Kanda highway.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, identified as Abdul<br \/>\nKadiri Mohammed, aka Awudu Mohammed, who operates his business at Alisa Hotel,<br \/>\nwas shot sporadically by the two hoodlums while on his way home after work. He<br \/>\nwas hit in the chest and two thighs, and is currently receiving treatment at<br \/>\nthe Police Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How<br \/>\nit happened<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Narrating the incident to <strong><em>DAILY<br \/>\nGUIDE<\/em><\/strong>, Hagar Owusu Akomea, a witness, said the attack occurred around<br \/>\n6:45 pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>She said her vehicle was in<br \/>\ntraffic with that of the victim who was driving a Toyota Corolla saloon car on<br \/>\nthe Kanda highway.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reaching the Central<br \/>\nMosque area, she revealed that two men riding on the left shoulders of the road<br \/>\nopened fire at the victim while his vehicle was still in motion. \u201cIn the<br \/>\nprocess, the victim lost control of the steering wheel and hit the vehicle on<br \/>\nthe metallic rails along the road,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>She said when the vehicle stopped,<br \/>\nthe suspected armed robbers also stopped to search for valuables in the<br \/>\nvictim\u2019s car before they fled towards Kawukudi traffic light area.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Akomea narrated that it<br \/>\nwas after the suspects had fled the scene that witnesses got close to the<br \/>\nvictim\u2019s car to rescue him, while others summoned the police. \u201cWe were all<br \/>\nafraid to draw close to the victim\u2019s car upon hearing the gunshots for fear of<br \/>\nour lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police<br \/>\naction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the Crime Officer in<br \/>\ncharge of the Nima Divisional Police Command Superintendent William Daa was<br \/>\ncontacted, he said the police got to the scene around 7 pm that fateful day. He<br \/>\nsaid the victim was immediately rushed to the Police Hospital where he is<br \/>\ncurrently receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He said preliminary<br \/>\ninvestigations conducted by the police revealed that the two men were a motor<br \/>\nrider and his pillion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey opened fire from the<br \/>\npassenger side of the victim\u2019s Toyota Corolla with registration number GE 9906-19<br \/>\nat a spot close to the Central Mosque and in the process hit him in the chest<br \/>\nand two thighs,\u201d he recounted.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that the victim\u2019s<br \/>\ncondition was currently stable but was yet to give out his statement to the<br \/>\npolice.<\/p>\n<p>The Nima Divisional Crime Officer<br \/>\nrevealed that 11 empty bullet shells were discovered at the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police are currently investigating the matter and would be grateful if the public could assist with information which would lead to the arrest of the suspects,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(lindatenyah@gmail.com) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Linda Tenyah \u2013Ayettey <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHOT! Abdul Kadiri Mohammed A rider and his pillion on Monday evening shot a forex bureau operator on the Kanda highway. The victim, identified as Abdul Kadiri Mohammed, aka Awudu Mohammed, who operates his business at Alisa Hotel, was shot sporadically by the two hoodlums while on his way home after work. He was hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Motor Riders Gun Down Man On Kanda Highway - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/09\/motor-riders-gun-down-man-on-kanda-highway\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Motor Riders Gun Down Man On Kanda Highway - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"SHOT! 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