The Ghana Police Service has placed a GH₵10,000- bounty on the heads of the person(s) who killed a policeman and injured two other officers at Mankessim.
The police say they will reward anyone who assists with reliable information leading to the arrest of persons who caused the havoc.
The armed robbers shot and killed an officer and injured two others on January 22, 2020.
A statement issued by the police said the incident happened at 2 a.m. after its men responded to a distress call.
“The incident occurred at about 0200 hours when a patrol team responded to a distress call from the ZEN filling station at Mankessim and upon arrival, the robbers opened fire injuring two police officers in the process”.
A few hours after the shoot out at the filling station, the body of another police officer was found lifeless about 200 meters away from the robbery scene.
He was found with gunshot wounds.
The deceased officer, Lance Corporal Kingsley Boahen,
was not on duty at the time of the incident. He was also dressed in plain clothing, a statement signed by the spokesperson of the central regional police command, DSP Irene Serwaa Oppong said.
All the officers were men from the Mankessim Divisional Police Headquarters.
Below is a statement issued by the police:
This is the umpteenth time officers have been shot dead by some unscrupulous persons.
In November 2019, President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo joined the police service at its National training school in Tesano to honour personnel who had died in their line of work.
Eight officers were killed at different locations whiles on duty across the country.
The Police Service remembered their fallen heroes at a sombre event at the very place some of them began their careers as police recruits– the National Police Training School at Tesano in Accra.
The Police turned to the Cenotaph Grounds located inside the Academy to engrave the names of their departed officers.
They are Inspector Foster Ampomah who was knocked down and killed by a suspect driver in charge of a DAF CE cargo truck; Inspector Michael Dotse K. Dzeameshie who was shot and killed by armed men near KAAF University in the Central Region; General Corporal Awal Mohammed who was on duty with Inspector Dzeameshie was also shot and killed by armed men.
Others are Sergeant Agatha Nana Nabin. She was shot and killed by armed men at Kumbungu near Star Oil while on snap check duty. General Corporal George Nkwanna who was involved in a road accident on his way to duty, General Lance Corporal Alhassan Asare who was found dead from what was suspected to be gunshot wounds while on duty.
The rest are General Lance Corporal John Andoh who was knocked down and killed by a Kia Rhino and General Corporal Bernard Antwi who was also killed while escorting miners with their black gold.