The Ghanaian Chronicle

Ex-Warrant Officer guns down top civil servant

 

The Ghanaian Chronicle in its lead story reports the killing of a top civil servant by a retired Warrant Officer. The paper says Warrant Officer Ebenezer Quaynor (rtd) of the National Security Council, Castle Annex, allegedly fired seven shots from his pistol at the head of Mr Morrison Kpienbaari, a 45-year-old District Director of Agriculture in charge of Bole in the Northern Region, killing him instantly.

The ex-soldier is reported as saying to the dying agricultural officer: "You were making mouth, mouth, now ibi you dey lie down there. I kill you".

The Chronicle says the incident happened at the Abelemkpe Junction through Dzorwulu to the Motorway Extension in Accra, when the vehicle on which the deceased was, was rammed into by another vehicle being driven by the ex-Warrant Officer.

The paper says Mr Kpienbaari?s driver pulled to a halt and enquired from Quaynor why he had run into his vehicle. Quaynor is reported to have retorted that the driver should have driven faster than snailing on the road. According to the Chronicle, after some exchanges between Mr Kpienbaari?s driver and Quaynor, Mr Kpienbaari?s driver asked that they call in the police, but the ex-Warrant Officer would not agree and attempted to leave the scene.

Mr Kpienbaari?s driver is reported as saying he held Quaynor by the trousers to prevent him from leaving. Quaynor, he said, then pulled a pistol but he wrestled it from him and walked off into a taxi he had flagged down to be taken to the police station for him to make a report. Quaynor, is alleged to have entered his vehicle, pulled another pistol and made towards Mr Kienbaari.

He aimed the pistol at Mr kpienbaari?s head at close range and fired seven times. The driver of the deceased made for the taxi. The Chronicle says moments later, personnel from the Police Action Unit, who had been sounded by passers-by arrived at the scene and retrieved the gun from Quaynor.

They deposited the deceased at the Police hospital mortuary and handed over the ex-Warrant Officer to the Police Quarters.