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General News of Monday, July 15, 2019
Source: the Chronicle
2019-07-15
Sgt. Sekeh was attacked while returning home Saturday
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a police pilot on Saturday night in Tema at the security office of former president Jerry John Rawlings.
The attacker, Sergeant Atsu Sekeh, whose condition is being monitored by doctors in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Tema General Hospital (TGH), is believed to belong to a family of police killers. father were all in the trade.
The information available for The Chronicle indicates that at approximately 2200 hours the SgtSekeh was driving a motorcycle bearing registration number GP 4405 and was returning home to Gbetsile, near Camp Michel of Ghana's first Infantry Battalion (1BN). Armed Forces (GAF). In Afariwaa Junction, on the Tema-Akosombo highway, members of the armed police of the Motor Patrol Unit had mounted an anti-failure barrier.
Within one kilometer of the instantaneous checkpoint, and once at the intersection of Tema Community 22, the occupants of a parked blue Toyota Corolla suddenly opened fire on the runner of the police dispatch, causing him to crash to the ground.
A driver of the Good Samaritan rushed to Afariwas junction to inform the armed police, who rushed to the scene to engage the criminals.
Sensing the coming special squad, the gunmen crossed the Community 22 and disappeared. The rider of the despatch, seriously injured, who was also carrying a handgun, got help from his colleagues who drove him to the hospital.
The doctors quickly operated on him with a severely injured and swollen hand, after which he was sent to the unit's intensive care unit.
The senior security officials with whom this journalist spoke have not yet understood the motive behind the police officer's near-badbadination. According to them, it is unclear whether the person responsible for the consignment was the victim of armed criminal elements who developed the inclination to eliminate state security personnel.
Somewhere in 2017, police officer Kporyi of Tema, while driving a motorcycle at work, was shot in the same place.
It was a reprisal attack when a few days earlier police officers met bandits at Community 9, but one of them could not survive after violent exchanges with law enforcement officials.
The group leader would have sworn to eliminate all police on motorbikes, but he has never lived long enough to see the effect of his statement.
On January 12, 2018, Sergeant George Boakye of the Ghana Military Police, seconded to Jubilee House with Vice President AlhajiDrBawumia's security officer, was killed in the Tema community.
The police arrested a 21-year-old taxi driver, AyiteyDorseh, a member of the perpetrators of this despicable act, in September of the same year.
At the same time, the police opened an investigation to arrest those responsible for the SgtAtsuSekeh shooting.
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