THE Northern Regional Police have mounted a search for two young men who shot one person and wounded another when they went on a robbery mission in Buipe in the Northern Region, on Monday dawn.
The two, who are believed to be Fulani, allegedly shot 45-year old Amidu Kwadja in the stomach, and slashed the hands of another person, who is yet to be identified.
Whiles the body of the former, who died at the scene, has been deposited at the morgue, the latter is currently receiving treatment at the Buipe Health Centre.
Narrating the incident to the Daily Graphic, the Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) in the region, Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh said the two suspects attacked a man, identified as Manu Yaro, in his house at the Buipe Bridge area between 12pm and 1am on Monday.
“They knocked on his door and when he opened they asked him to give them a bag that they claimed contained large amounts of money,” he stated.
“Investigations revealed that the robbers had a tip off that a brother of Yaro, who is a cattle farmer, had visited him and had given him the bag. Unfortunately on their part, Yaro’s brother, who was indeed in town, was not with Yaro at that time and also had not left any bag with him,” he added.
Chief Insp. Tetteh said an argument broke out between Yaro and the two men, because the former kept insisting that his brother had not left any bag containing money with him.
He said in the heat of the argument, a neighbour who was attracted to the scene by the noise challenged the two men to leave the house, but unluckily on his part, one of the two men, who was infuriated by his actions, raised his cutlass and slashed the man in his hand.
According to the PRO, the two men later forced themselves into the room of Yaro, took out a bag that they thought was the one containing the money and took off from the scene.
He said on the way, they met Amidu Kwadja, who is now deceased, and shot him in the stomach.
“We are yet to ascertain why they shot him, but we believe it might be out of fear or may be he reproached them,” Chief Insp Tetteh stated.
Following the incident, the PRO mentioned that the Buipe police have consequently alerted the residents of Buipe to be on the look out for any such persons with a suspicious character and report them to the police.
Meanwhile, as this incident was happening, four bare-chested armed men also barricaded a portion of the Yapei-Buipe road and attempted robbing occupants of vehicles that used the route.
A driver of a Free Zones Board truck, with registration number FZB 214 Z, Adamu Yakubu, drove pass the barricade, but his windscreen was pierced by a bullet and his mate sustained minor injuries on his finger from the shot.
Yakubu reported the incident when he got to the police check point at Buipe, but when the patrol team drove to the scene, the men had vacated.
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