Armed robbers kill man in Bawku

• Posted on October 24, 2014October 24, 2014
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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There is uneasy calm in Kpalwega, a suburb of Bawku in the Upper East region after a shooting incident in the area left one dead on Wednesday night.

Police in the area say their investigations have revealed that the attack was not related to an ethnic conflict.

Speaking to Citi News, the Bawku Divisional commander, Chief Superintendent Lovelace Tefutor said the victim was rather shot by armed robbers.

He stated that the man was shot because he was unable to give a specified “amount of money to the robbers”

Narrating the incident, Superintendent Tefutor said “…there was an uncompleted window where the two armed men jumped through the window and broke into the main entrance and asked her man for money…so the woman gave him an unprescribed amount of money, but they were insisting they wanted more money but the man said he doesn’t have money so they dragged him outside and shot him three times leading to his death.”

“After that, they went back to the room of the man and ransacked his room, but unfortunately they didn’t find any money,” he added.

Bawku has for sometime now witnessed a number of shooting incidents.

Police in the area earlier asked residents to surrender their weapons in a bid to rid the town of illegal weapons but only two residents obeyed the directive.

The Bawku Police Commander Chief Superintendent Lovelace Tefutor said residents did not comply with the directives because they were not enthused about the deal.

By: Marian Efe Ansah