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Police gun down 24-year-old suspect

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  • Max 8 years ago

    sad story, however could you please correct the date of the incident? was it Saturday Jan 2, 2016 or Jan 2,2014?

  • insight to the bone 8 years ago

    our police are trigger happy because the political climate of uneasy uncertainty. Why were there no warning shots or why did the deceased not stop and pay a bribe as usual ?

  • Kosi Ametefe Dogbe 8 years ago

    not surprising to me, i have seen a lot of basic mistakes in many write-ups published on this website

  • akuffo addo retirement party 8 years ago

    So what is the man suspected of,as your headline claims he is a suspect

  • Yaw Mensah, New York 8 years ago

    Why did they take off ? Any patrol team may think of a wrong doing on the part of the motorbikers
    Sad but....

  • gretchy NZ 8 years ago

    Why were the bloody police armed,the deceased was a suspect and?what did he do apart from NOT wearing a helmet.Please lets have some decent reporting from journalists also geeze!!!

  • Ishaq SAANA 8 years ago

    This is very unprofessional. The The IGP should quickly order an investigation into the incident. Committing a traffic offence doesn't warrant his being killed.

  • Joe Turkey 8 years ago

    He added that they were however pursued by the police who appeared from a different direction and subsequently "opened fire on them in an attempt to escape and shooting the deceased in the ribs". Is this the best English the ...
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  • NANA KWAME GYASI 8 years ago

    Joe,can u convince the public why the writer's english is ungrammatical. Any errors in the writing? Don't draw a baseless conclusion when you can't decipher a correct english from a bad one. Can you identity and correct the e ...
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  • English bTeacher 8 years ago

    Nana Gyasi, please do not disgrace me. After all the efforts I put into the English lessons, are you telling the world that you cannot see anything wrong with this reporter's Brofo? Little wonder I hear you got a perfect 7 (7 ...
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  • Ab 8 years ago

    U northerners, after being civilised by the Ashanti's n ewes thinking that we could accept u from ur cursed barren land n make u humans, what do we get in return, u hv used tribal politics to cease the highest seat in the cou ...
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  • law 8 years ago

    an animal is beta Dan u

  • ROBERT BRACE 8 years ago

    PLS CONTINUE TAKEN YOUR MEDECINE BECUASE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM IS GETTING WORSE. EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT AND IS CLEAR FROM WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN.

  • Haske 8 years ago

    Be reasonable in your commits, Ghana is not for Asantes, this tribalism will never help you or your mischievous political interest

  • Isaac 8 years ago

    Clap for This fool please

  • irrepressible fireman 8 years ago

    Ab ,as your mother who your father is,u uncouth,untrained, ill mannered smelling nonentity

  • Anas is unstoppable 8 years ago

    Ab, you fool papaa

  • Didier bob 8 years ago

    Talking about the Ashanties and civilisation : first they have a low IQ. They don't want to learn some of them don't even know to write their own name. champion in cleaning job .and you want to talk ab ...
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  • xx 8 years ago

    ....you are cracking my ribs!!!

  • 2016 for Nana Addo 8 years ago

    NDC having stolen all Ghana's money and enjoyong the loot with their families are afraid of being prosecuted after losing elections this year so they will resort to such dirty tribal tactics to divert attention. Please don't ...
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  • METCHEEEEEW 8 years ago

    Faceless ndc idiot, who think they can't govern but can use tribal sentiments to divide and rule the nation. Who can write this nonsense apart from a helpless and desperate ndc footsoldier. What has your comment got to do wit ...
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  • Sam Tuga 8 years ago

    Very bad

  • Douglas 8 years ago

    Ab, ar u saying northerners ar nt humans n frm a barren land? U ar very stupid, am sure it's an animal dat gave birth to u. Stupid fool, idiot. I tink u hv gabbage in ur brain. Animal like u

  • Douglas 8 years ago

    Because social media is opened, people just open deir mouth at any degree to say rubbish. Wat a foolish lifestyle people hav. May God forgive us

  • Kofi Asamoah 8 years ago

    Police gun down a 24year old suspect The police should be held accountable.This is unprofessional.The gun should be the last resort to be used.
    Are these people actually being trained as police? Killing killing always.Why?

  • Yesu nti 8 years ago

    We Ghanaians we not respect our Securities is tha time we have to respect our securities and our laws in the country

  • Akuffo Bawumia Afoko 8 years ago

    I thought people will become a bit more civil on social media in 2016. Just wondering who Ab is. Again let's listen to both sides of the story. Nothing from the police?

  • Kwaku Jimmy 8 years ago

    you r very stupid, there is no courtesy in ur family. Do u want that should happen to the innocence soul?

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  • MARIO 8 years ago

    TRAIN TO PULL THE TRIGGER BUT REASON TO PULL IT,HE DOES NOT KNOW.

  • yaw 8 years ago

    When are we going to sit down for the unprofessional of Ghana police to kill us. Revenge is the solutions to stop them

  • Nana 8 years ago

    Go thy ar waiting fr yur revenge.Do yu know what realy happened?

  • Kan 8 years ago

    I am disappointed in the police .IGP pls intervene b'cos the Region Commander will want to cover up the drunk police officer who kill the innocent boy.

  • tony 8 years ago

    GHANA POLICE ARE NOT WELL TRAINED ,THERE ALWAYS TOOK THE LAW IN THEIR OWN HAND,LOOK IT HAS HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE WHEN A POLICE ARREST ME WHILE CROSSING A ZEBRA CROSSING ,I HAVE TO CALL THE ACCRA COMANDER

  • kofi Tesano 8 years ago

    how can someone run away from the police at a barrier because of a helmet, guys let us all educate ourselves in terms of security and the police. The policeman on duty with his weapon is not dere by his own choice but by law. ...
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  • Saint 8 years ago

    de police are fools

  • Discipline 8 years ago

    God punish the one who authored this story. What is the decease a suspect of?.

  • THOMAS DUKORMEVI 8 years ago

    Why do the police always shoot with pleasure as if they are hunting bats?

  • Taliban 8 years ago

    Ab, but we r currently ruling u n ur poor parents at home. Is that why u r jealous? The fact still remains that, northerners r the most intellegent n well educated in this country n we will rule u guys for a very long time, m ...
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  • sam darkwa 8 years ago

    lets waits and hear from the police cause i smell a rat

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    Warning shots????? Shoot to disable the bike????? No will just kill him! Wonder how these people are trained

  • Stop tribal . 8 years ago

    The suspect has no arm why shot him to death ???

  • Kwabena NDC 8 years ago

    Do u tink Gh is 4 u people,,,haha!! U will continue 2 remain in opposition 4ever amen

  • lovelife. 8 years ago

    Plz he might not be an ashanti guy...he posted that just to breed hatred...people should ignore him...Ghana is for all ethnic groups...

  • Diasporan 8 years ago

    The presentation is not ballanced. It is all about what the surviving "suspect's" bike-mate said. What did the police say? A good journalist would have sought, and presented the police side also in order to ballance the st ...
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  • igp 8 years ago

    Wo maame twe

  • Kaaley 8 years ago

    He was killed because he was not wearing a crash helmet and was trying to avoid the police from stopping him.

  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 8 years ago

    Running from police is always risky business because one's evasive action is an admission of guilt. 1million rounds of ammunition + several heavy weapons were captured by police recently, terrorists of all shades are everywhe ...
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  • Anas 8 years ago

    Do you want to kill for free? Join GH police you will even be paid murdering.

  • Yussif 8 years ago

    The police officer must be put before court,this is like hit and run,you wanted an offender you see him decided to shoot him and kill him,after that you can't runaway leaving the body behind.what atall was their crime?such th ...
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  • Makaveli 8 years ago

    Re:ungrateful northers. Your mother are reasonable.

  • thunder 8 years ago

    oh Ghana police

  • Yaa 8 years ago

    The police could not be blamed. Those men should have followed the law by stopping. The policeman might have suspected some foul play. Sorry for your lost, but in a country where we have too many armed robbers the police sho ...
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  • Chipy 8 years ago

    i m very sorry to hear this but Police must not be blamed, this is because Police are there to enforce law and protect properties and they are also our friends, .Why should you run when seeing a Police. What would he suspect. ...
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