Yohuno interacting with field officers
INSPECTOR GENERAL of Police (IGP), Christian Tetteh Yohuno, is in the Ashanti Region specifically Asawase and it catchment communities to ensure peace following the shooting of two people, which included the assassination of a traditional ruler, Abdul-Malik Azenbe, the Kusasi Chief of the Ashanti Region.
An unidentified man was also gunned down last Friday in broad daylight at Sabon Zongo by two unknown assailants on a motorbike.
The brazen attack happened just days after the July 22, 2025 assassination of Abdul-Malik Azenbe, who was shot by gunmen on a motorbike near his residence at the Asawase F-Line community centre.
One of the assailants was reportedly armed with an AK-47. Following the incident, police and military personnel have been deployed to the area, and investigators are actively gathering evidence at both crime scenes. Currently, the Ghana Police Service has intensified patrols and intelligence operations in the area as part of efforts to prevent further violence.
In his interactions with police officers, IGP Tetteh Yohuno urged his men to be alert at all times.
“You have to be vigilant at all times. And when they realise that this one did not work, they can use a tricycle or a vehicle to commit the same crime. If an offence occurs during the day, it can occur at night. The first one occurred at night after 8 o’clock in the night. And then this very one at Sabon Zongo. It was on a hot afternoon,” he cautioned.
IGP Tetteh Yohuno and the Police Management Board (POMAB) visited both crime scenes to unravel the mystery behind the incidents. IGP Tetteh Yohuno also vowed to ensure that the persons behind the two separate fatal shooting incidents in the Ashanti Region are arrested.
Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has imposed an immediate ban on the use of motorbikes after 7:00pm in parts of the region, including the Asokore Mampong Municipality and the Kumasi Metropolis, following the fatal shooting of the two residents.
By Prince Fiifi Yorke