Police ignored pleas to send dying shot Mampong Nursing and Midwifery Training tutor to hospital

It has emerged police personnel who shot a tutor of Mampong Nursing and Midwifery Training College and his brother allegedly ignored plea to take them to the hospital.

Francis Gbene and his brother who had gone to the rescue of a colleague teacher under armed robbery attack were mistaken for criminals and shot dead by police.

School authorities say the two could have survived if police had heeded plea to rush them to hospital for attention just a few meters from the school.

After shooting them, the police reportedly drove them to the residence of the female teacher to suggest they had arrested the suspected robbers.

The shocked female teacher indicated to them the two were not criminals, and joined her wounded colleague who was then alive to plead with police to take him to the hospital, just behind the walls of the college where the two were shot.

The police allegedly insisted on taking the victims first to the charge office about 10 kilometers away.

College Vice-Principal, Mercy Kporku, gave a chilling account of events preceding the death of the Anatomy and Physiology tutor at a press conference on Thursday.

“The policemen on arrival ask her (tutor) and the other occupants to go inside the house and lock the gate. The police gave two warning shots at the back of the bungalow after they have searched the house and jumped into their car and drove away. She said that after an hour, the police then came back to their bungalow; searched the house again and then informed her that they have arrested the robbers. She and her daughter went to the patrol car and saw the victims lying at the back of the car and the motorbike. She shouted and said; this is my colleague tutor and not a thief and mentioned his name as Gbene. Gbene was by then not dead and pleaded with her; please send me to the hospital. I am dying”

Miss Kporku described the police conduct as unprofessional, saying the school will seek justice in the case.

“The policemen instead agreeing and sending him to the hospital rather said they had to send Gbene and the brother to the charge office before sending them to the hospital and then drove off. We strongly believe that on this particular occasion, if police were a little more professional, this incident wouldn’t have happened. We seek for justice and we will follow this matter to its logical conclusion”. She said at the press conference.

Meanwhile, school authorities have called on the Inspector- General of Police to institute independent investigations into the incident.

“We call on the IGP to take this matter serious. We ask for an independent investigation team to thoroughly look into this matter”.