Police Arrest "Sakawa" Lynchers

Police personnel on local peace keeping mission in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo district have arrested three suspects for attempting to lynch three travelers from Accra-Amasaman to Garu-Tempane District in the Upper East Region. The suspects Yakubu Silim, 42, Seidu Issifu also 42 and Balam Dabri 38 all natives of Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo district are in police custody in Tamale.

According to the Northern regional police command, the suspects were arrested in Nakpanduri for attempting to lynch occupants of a BMW saloon car with registration number GT 1716T travelling from Accra-Amasaman to Garu-Tempane in the Upper East Region. But for the timely intervention of the Nakpanduri police, Nana Seth 32, Francis Bekoe 38 and Bismarck Osei 22 occupants of the said BMW saloon car which was burnt to ashes were nearly stoned to death by the arrested three suspects. According to Ebenezer Tetteh, Public Relations Officer to the Northern regional police command residents of the area suspected the victims to be “Sakawa” spiritualists which nearly culminated into their untimely death.

“In an attempt to control the rioters, some five police men were assaulted with their official vehicle damaged, Ebenezer Tetteh emphasized.

ACP Awuni Angwubutoge, northern regional police commander said the suspects will soon be charged and arranged before court and reiterated the police service’s commitment to flush out miscreants in certain parts of the region whose activities create security threat to area.

The Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo district lately has recorded the highest crime rate in the Northern region with specific references to the recent burning of 35 households in the area and the activities of jailed break notorious Armed Robber Johnson Kombiat and his accomplices whose activities have affected the socio-economic wellbeing of residents of the district.

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