Constable and AshinyoInspector Mutse
SIX MORE people have been arrested in connection with the shooting and killing of two police officers at Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains District of the Ashanti Region.
Inspector Adolph Mutse and Constable Ashinyo were shot to death at Onwam Mountain on the Kumawu-Drobonso main road last Thursday when they were returning from night duty at Drobonso Tent City station to Kumawu in a police vehicle registered GP 2346.
A third officer, G/Constable Enoch Okyere, who survived the attack, was injured in the process and was sent to a hospital for medical attention.
A man who was in possession of a pump action gun and live cartridges believed to be one of the assailants, was arrested at Nsuta-Kwamang in the Sekyere Central District a day after the callous incident, and brought to the Ashanti Regional police headquarters for questioning.
The police have subsequently arrested six more persons on suspicion of their involvement in the murder of the two officers on January 12, 2018.
In a statement to the media and signed by the Regional Commander, COP Ken Yeboah, the police said two suspects remained at large, but they were closing in on them at their hideouts.
The statement indicated that all the suspected culprits – made up of four people who were allegedly involved in the attack, two financiers of the robbery gang and one supplier of arms and ammunition to the gangsters – had been identified as people of Fulani extraction.
It disclosed that the suspects were arrested at Kwamang in the Ashanti Region as well as Jeme, Yeji, Techiman and Prang – in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
The police stated further that two shot guns and locally made pistol as well as 17 live cartridges, had been retrieved from the newly arrested suspects.
“Their motives were to rob, kill security personnel and take their weapons as a reprisal attack on Fulani herdsmen and their cattle at Agogo and its environs,” the statement noted.
From Ernest Kofi Adu, Kumasi