Police killer identified

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has identified a group of suspected robbers who shot and killed two people, including a policeman, during separate robbery operations in Kumasi recently.

DCOP Kofi Boakye, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, said five people who belong to two separate robbery groups are responsible for the Denchemuoso and Kokoben robbery incidents.

He stated that the police had intensified investigations into the recent killings and managed to identify the trigger-happy robbers, who operate with AK47 assault rifles and shoot their victims without provocation.

The commander assured that very soon the five robbers would be arraigned to face the law. He said this when he was addressing scores of journalists in Kumasi yesterday.

The police officer noted that the five robbers “are very new in the robbery business,” stating that the police had worked tirelessly to identify them but he would not disclose their identities until they had been nabbed.

He said a special anti-robbery taskforce had been formed by the regional police command to help arrest the robbers, stressing that the taskforce would operate “till it becomes necessary to dissolve it.”

DCOP Kofi Boakye commended the police personnel in the region for working tirelessly to reduce crime and maintain law and order.

AK47 For Sale

The regional police boss disclosed with concern that a lot of guns, especially AK47 assault rifles, had been smuggled into the Ashanti Region by unscrupulous people who offered these illegal weapons for sale at secret locations in the city.

He said the two robberies that occurred in Kumasi recently were partly caused by the influx of AK47 assault rifles into the region.

According to him, phone snatching, car robberies, residential robberies, land guard problems, indiscipline and impunity had been reduced drastically in the region, lauding the police personnel for working 12 hours on a daily basis to achieve that great feat.