An officer of the Ghana Prisons Carrier, Leader Officer Francis Dzaka Mawunyo, has been shot useless via a gang of 3 freeway robbers at the Asiakwa-Apedwa stretch at the Kumasi-Accra Freeway.
The deceased officer, in line with a document via Myjoyonline, was once shot within the face at shut vary after he refused at hand over his bag stated to be containing an quantity of GHC¢340 to the robbers. His refusal at hand over the bag at the command of the robbers angered a member of the group stated to were wielding a pump-action gun.
The offended robber shot him within the left eye, killing him immediately. The Kibi Divisional Police showed the incident noting that it replied to a misery name from the scene to the Data Room of the Jap Regional Police Headquarters at Koforidua.
In step with a police situational document, the group stopped and robbed about 20 cars at the stretch at about 2:30 am on Thursday at a place between Brimso and Enyinasi. “At the spot investigations disclosed that 3 armed males suspected to be of Fulani extraction stopped the cars and robbed the passengers in their houses, together with money and cell phones,” it added.
The deceased was once stated to be onboard a 46-seater Hyundai bus with registration quantity AP 260-22 and was once travelling from Kumasi to Accra course of the street when the bus was once stopped via the robbers.
“It was once additional disclosed that the robbers demanded that the deceased surrenders his bag, however he resisted; in consequence, one of the crucial robbers armed with pump-action gun fired at him at shut vary via the left eye, killing him immediately.
“The robbers therefore accumulated the bag of the deceased,” it stated. A seek at the frame of the deceased is alleged to have resulted in the invention of an quantity of GH¢340 and a Jail Carrier ID card together with his identify Dzaka Francis Mawunyo on it.
The deceased officer, till his demise, was once stationed on the Kumasi Central Prisons and was once a couple of months clear of his retirement in June this 12 months.
Leader Officer Francis Dzaka Mawunyo left at the back of a spouse and 3 kids. His frame has since been deposited on the Kibi executive health facility morgue pending post-mortem.
In the meantime, the Ghana Police Carrier has introduced a distinct operation to apprehend the suspects.
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