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Comptroller-General of Immigration visits injured officer at TTH

The injured officer was visit by the Comptroller-General of Immigration The injured officer was visit by the Comptroller-General of Immigration

Correspondence from Northern Region

The Comptroller-General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Samuel Basintale

Amadu has assured that the service is actively working with the Ghana Police

Service to bring to book the killers of Assistant Immigration Control Officer II (AICO II) Rafiq Mohammad, who was killed on duty by suspected robbers at

Gbintiri in the North East Region on October 3.

He said investigations were far advanced and the perpetrators of the attack,

which also left The officer, AICO II Oppong Daniel, with multiple gunshot wounds after being hit in the jaw and shoulder by the robbers, will be arrested as soon as possible.

“The police are on it; they’ve picked up some intel, but we don’t want to preempt anything. We have left that with the police and our intelligence unit to carry on,” CGI Basintale said.

The Comptroller General of Immigration (CGI) disclosed this to GhanaWeb in

Tamale on Monday after paying a visit to AICO Il Oppong Daniel, who is currently

on admission at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH).

He assured personnel working in Northern Ghana that they had the unflinching

support of the GIS management, adding that everything is being done to retool

them.

“Security is a very big issue now especially in the Northern enclave but I want to assure them [Immigration personnel] that everything is being done possible to retool them, to arm them and as I leave here, I’m heading to the North East Region, I will go through every station within the North East Region to assure the officers of our unflinching support and to assure them that logistics will come up to beef up whatever they have already and if the need be to bring in more men, that will be done because we know that more needs to be done in this Northern enclave because of what is happening in the sahel region,” CGI Basintale noted.

Gunmen attacked AICO II Oppong and AICO II Rafiq on October 3 while on duty at

Gbintiri Inland Checkpoint in the East Mamprusi Municipality of the North East

Region.

While the deceased died on the spot, AICO II Oppong was hit by multiple

gunshots, leaving him in a critical condition.

He was rushed to the Baptist Medical Center in Nalerigu and later transferred to the Tamale Teaching Hospital, where he is currently receiving treatment.

CGI Basintale said he was happy to see the Immigration Officer recovering fast,

urging doctors at the TTH to do everything possible to ensure his full recovery.

He also assured the family of the officer of the GIS and the government’s support towards ensuring that AICO II Oppong fully recovers.

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