A 59-year-old prison officer, Chief Officer Francis Dzaka Mawunyo has been shot dead by armed robbers on the Asiakwa-Apedwa stretch on the Kumasi-Accra Highway for defying their orders.
One of the robbers, wielding a pump-action gun, was angered shooting Mr. Mawuko in the left eye killing him instantly when he resisted to hand over the bag which is said to have contained an amount of Three Hundred Ghana cedis.
According to a Kibi Divisional Police situational report, they responded to a distress call from the scene of the incident to the Information Room of the Eastern Regional Police Headquarters at Koforidua.
The robbers are said to have blocked, stopped, and robbed over twenty vehicles at about 2:30 am on Thursday, January 27, 2022, at a spot between Brimso and Enyinasi.
“On the spot investigations disclosed that three armed men suspected to be of Fulani extraction stopped the vehicles and robbed the passengers of their properties, including cash and mobile phones,” it added.
The deceased, on board a 46-seater Hyundai bus with registration number AP 260-22 traveling from the Kumasi-Accra direction, was also stopped by the robbers.
“It was further disclosed that the robbers demanded that the deceased surrendered his bag, but he resisted; as a result, one of the robbers armed with pump-action gun fired at him at close range by the left eye, killing him instantly.
“The robbers subsequently collected the bag of the deceased,” it said.
The police report further indicated that when a search was conducted on the deceased, Three Hundred and Forty Ghana cedis and a Prisons Service ID card bearing his name, Dzaka Francis Mawunyo, was found.
Mr. Mawunyo was stationed at the Kumasi Central Prisons and scheduled for retirement in June this year.
He left behind three children and a wife.
His death has left officers at Kumasi Central Prisons devastated.
Meanwhile, the deceased’s body has been deposited at the Kibi Government Hospital morgue, pending an autopsy.
