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The Bawku Police Command has began providing a 24 hour police security escort to traders and travelers from Bawku to the Burkina Faso border.

This measure comes as a result of frequent robbery of traders and travelers who come from Burkina Faso to Bawku to trade and transact other socio-economic activities.

Deputy Superintendant of Police (DSP) Benjamin Ofori Acquah, Crime Officer for the Bawku Police Divisional Command, said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Bawku.

DSP Acquah said on September 05 at about 1300 hrs, seven complainants, all Burkinabe citizens were leaving Bawku to Burkina Faso after selling their livestock.

He said on reaching the forest reserve at Kupelgu, a community near Bawku, three suspected armed robbers, Nolga Shilge aka Dongande,  Ali Mumuni aka Akutu and Haruna Ahmed, attacked them with an AK47 assault rifle, a sword and a knife.

DSP Acquah said the robbers took away GHC 1,780 and 59,400 CFA from three of the victims but while in the process some farmers on their farms saw them and raised an alarm and sensing danger the robbers fled the scene amidst the firing of gun shots.

He said the police upon getting a tip-off pursued the robbers and arrested Nolga Shilge and retrieved a jack knife, a sword and an amount of 3,270 CFA from him.

DSP Acquah said during police interrogation, the suspect, who has since been remanded into prison custody awaiting trial, mentioned the other two as his accomplices.

He urged traders and travelers to move in groups as that could serve as a source of security and seek for police escort along their journey.