A robbery incident that occurred at the Zen Petroleum Filling Station situated on the Gyedu-Mankessim stretch in the Central Region of Ghana in the Republic of Ghana, West Africa, left one police officer dead while two other officers who got shot are currently on admission.
Information available to energynewsafrica.com indicates that police officers who received a distress call and proceeded to the scene of the robbery incident on Wednesday dawn engaged in a gun battle with robbers who attempted robbing the filling station near Closefield School in Mankessim.
Our sources indicate that in the process of gun battle two of the police got injured forcing them to retreat.
The suspected robbers then took to their heels by entering into the bush.
The deceased Lance Corporal Kingsley Boahen, who was not part of the police patrol team and was in civil cloth was found dead in a pool of blood about 200 metres away from the crime scene.
The deceased who is said to be a popular police officer in Mankessim and had been regularly going for jogging exercises on that stretch is suspected to have been shot by the robbers upon seeing him jogging.
Ghana’s Inspector General of Police James Oppong Boanuh yesterday visited the crime scene and the family of the deceased.
He said senior investigators have been brought from the Police headquarters to join the regional investigation team to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book.
“My team made up of other members of the police management board, we came down from Accra after hearing the incident that happened here in Mankessim. We learnt one officer was shot dead and two others are receiving treatment after getting injured.
“We have visited both crime scenes and investigations are being carried out. We had an initial crime team and another crime team has arrived from Accra to beef up and support the Regional crime team.
Investigations will proceed and whatever happens, we will let Ghanaians know. We have to wish the injured officers speedy recovery and to the family and friends of the deceased, we offer them our condolences.”
According to citinewsroom.com, owner of the Zen Oil Filling station who wished to remain anonymous said this is the second time in two months that his station has been robbed
“Around 1:03am, I received a distress call from my security that he has seen some unfamiliar movements at the station so I immediately called the Mankessim patrols team and at exactly 1:08am they got here and the robbers started firing at them so they had to back off. There were about five heavily armed men and this is the second time in two months this is happening to me”.
Source:www.energynewsafrica.com