The Director General in charge of operations of the Ghana police service COP Christian Tetteh Yohonu has said they will leave no stone unturned in dealing with armed robbers in the country.
He was reacting to the armed robbery operation that led to the shooting of a police officer at Lapaz.
According to him, ‘we will match the armed robbers in the country fire for fire’ adding, they have asked their men to descend heavily on them [armed robbers] even if it requires ‘opening fire’ on them.
Speaking on Okay FM's Ade Akye Abia's programme, COP Tetteh Yohonu blamed the high spate of robbery in the country on the Justice for all programme and some of the reviewed laws in the country.
"What happened yesterday is barbaric and callous. We will deal heavily with these armed robbers", he explained.
He also assured members of the public to remain calm as they are on top of the security in the region.
"We are going to beef up visibility patrols and also put in adequate security measures to protect Ghanaians".
IGP Places GHC10,000 bounty on Lapaz cop killers
Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police David Asante Apeatu has placed a 10, 000 Ghana cedis bounty on the two armed robbers who shot and killed a Police officer at Lapaz in Accra Thursday afternoon.
The robbers who were on an unlicensed motorbike escaping after a robbery operation around Ashanti Home Touch at Lapaz were confronted by two police officers on patrol duties.
The robbers opened fire on the police officers killing one instantly. The other Police officer escaped with gun shots wounds to his hand.
To facilitate their movement, the two robbers abandoned their motorbike, snatched an unregistered Ash Hyundai Elantra saloon vehicle in broad day light and sped off towards Mallam junction.
Addressing the Press Friday, the IGP called on Ghanaians to help the Police with vital information to ensure that the robbers are arrested.
He added that 10,000 Ghana cedis has been set aside to reward anyone who provides information leading to the arrest of the thugs.
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In as much as I sympathize with the decease family and the police, I also want to let you David Asante Apeatu and his officers know that security situation is getting weast day in day out. People are complaining and feel their lives are not secured.You and your boys should be more alert.The president know you can do the job that is why he put you there. RIP Officer.
trust me the guys who shot the policemen are Nigerians. These okada business must be abolish in Ghana before we can have our peace of mind
Oh dont kill them..take bribes from them...fffoolish police force,all you know is bribe....they will kill u now.
The day the masses abdicate their responsibility to be their brother's keeper, and shun the concept of righteous lynching, as a shock therapy to the depraved, is the day evil will triumph over good. It must not happen. The masses must uphold the concept of lynching for societal renewal and sanity, in the face of evil.
It will be silly for you to arrest them and take them to court. See Kombian today growing fat in remand for the past twenty years after killing about ten policemen. Simply change your strategy: If you get these two guys, just KILL THEM and say it ways a shoot -out PERIOD.
You see ooo if these lapaz robbers had been caught and lynched like wahala go come, it only pains me that sometime it turns out that innocent people are rather lynched.... Face them and kill each one of them cos for this to happen in a broad day light like this is too much and only God knows what they wil do nxt tim. May the soul of the police RIP