A suspected Fulani robber shot dead

Sunyani, Aug. 1, GNA - A suspected Fulani armed robber was on Friday night shot dead at Nsuta near Bechem in the Brong Ahafo Region by a policeman escorting a Yutong bus transporting passengers from Sunyani to Accra.

Chief Inspector Christopher Tawiah, the Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), who confirmed the story to the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani, said the Fulani man attempted to rob the passengers.

He said that at about 1200 hours on Friday seven suspected armed robbers mounted a barrier with logs at Nsuta on the Kumasi-Sunyani road.

Chief Insp. Tawiah said the robbers stopped the bus with registration number GC 5149 at the road block and ordered the driver, Isaac Adesi, 43, to surrender all the money in his possession.

The Police PRO said two of the robbers stood in front of the bus to prevent it from moving and another one entered the bus and threatened to shoot the driver if he refused to yield to their request.

Chief Insp. Tawiah said in the process, the deceased robber (not yet identified) shot dead the driver at point blank with a locally manufactured pistol but he was also instantly shot dead by the policeman on board the bus.

The Police PRO said Osumanu Abudulai, 27, also a Fulani man, entered the bus with a cutlass ready to attack the passengers but he was fired at by the policeman and he (Osumanu) took to his heels.

Chief Insp. said the remaining robbers, sensing danger, fled into the bush.

The policeman on board the bus informed his colleagues at the Regional Police Command about the case, and a team of patrol policemen was dispatched to the scene.

Chief Insp. Tawiah said the team with support from the police at Bechem apprehended one of the robbers, Yaw Adu, 25, when he emerged from the bush.

The Police PRO said Osumani was also arrested and handed over to the police by residents of a village near Nsuta when he (robber), who sustained gunshot wounds, approached someone to direct him to the road.

Chief Insp. Tawiah said the two suspects had been sent to the Regional Police headquarters to assist in investigations whilst the bodies of the driver and the robber had been deposited at the Bechem Hospital mortuary.

He appealed to the public to volunteer information that could lead to the arrest of the remaining four armed robbers.

Chief Insp. Tawiah advised parents to report their children who would misbehave to the police to prevent them from becoming a nuisance to society.

GNA