Regional News of Monday, March 25, 2019

Source: Daniel Kaku

2019-03-25

Sergeant Mohammed Fusieni, from the Maritime Police Unit, allegedly shot and killed an AK47 badault rifle at Osagyefo Barge, Effasu near Half Assini, Jomoro Municipality, in the area from the West.

The incident occurred on Sunday 24 March around 8 am at the police bungalow in Effasu-Mangyea, in the municipality, where four officers were on duty at the barge.

These four maritime police officers were badigned to protect the barge Osagyefo.

Jomoro District Police Commander, DSP Zenge, confirmed the incident to Sgt. Mohammed Fusieni after returning from rest at the police bungalow in Effasu-Mangyea, sending Lance Corporal Iddrisu Kafando Muntari to buy him a grazing blade. .

According to the police commander, Lance Corporal Muntari returned only to find the late Sergeant Fusieni lying in a pool of blood with the AK47 badault rifle in the room.

He added that when they received the sad news, they quickly turned to Sekondi's Crime Scene Management Team and the Takoradi Marine Police and visited the scene with the police. of Half Assini.

"We went to the scene to find the body lying on its back in a puddle of dead blood with the AK47 badault rifle at its legs," he confirmed.

DSP Zenge also added that they had found a note written next to him on which included his wife's number and two other phone numbers, as well as a short statement.

The written note reads; "I can not bear this shame, something I do not know."

He revealed that Sergeant Mohammed Fusieni (service number 37400) and Lance Corporal Iddrisu Kafando Muntari (service number 51484) based at the Aiyinasi Marine Police Station in the District of Ellembelle, in the area from the West.

DSP Zenge said that after an inspection and photographs taken by the scene of the crime, experts have removed the body to drop him to the hospital morgue of Accra police for the purposes conservation and autopsy.

He added that they were investigating what could have led to the incident.

Discussing with GhanaWeb the question of whether the late Sergeant Mohammed Fusieni was one of four naval police officers currently under the ban of theft of electric gadgets in Osagyefo's electric barge. Last month, the district police commander categorically denied his involvement.

"DSP was the late Sergeant Fusieni, one of the four Navy police officers on prohibition, no, he was not one of the four officers, he was sent to the Barge after the alleged robbery incident that is currently being carried out. he was not part of it, we do not know why he wrote this note and we are going to investigate it, "he said.

The four maritime police officers and other civilians currently under the prohibition of theft of electric gadgets in the Osagyefo electric barge at Effasu Mangyea in Jomoro Municipality are: Lance Corporal Peter Zator, Lance Corporal Ibrahim Mohammed, Joseph Baidoo, Abdullai Issah and Usif Sulley, Alhbadan Sadick (driver).

Sgt. Mohammed Fusieni, 45, has left a wife and three children.