Police Shoot 3 Sogakofe Protestors Gets Three-Day Ultimatum

An angry protest of residents of Sogakofe in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region has turned bloody as reports have it that three people have been hit by police stray bullets.

The guns were allegedly fired by the police in an attempt to disperse the protestors who stormed the Sogakope police station. The bullets allegedly came from the gun of the District Commander, Supt Michael Zah who reportedly hit three people in the leg, arm and back.

The injured have been rushed to the District Hospital in Sogakofe while one has been taken to the Comboni Hospital, Whatsup News gathered.

The commotion follows Sunday’s gruesome murder of the Assemblyman for Sogakofe South, Marcus Mawutor Adzahli.

A group of heavily armed masked assailants broke into his home and shot him at point-blank range, Whatsup News gathered.  

Officers of the Ghana Police Service in the town were nowhere to be found during the asaault which lasted several minutes, eyewitnesses, including the deceased’s sister Selorm Adzahli.

“When I called them, they said they don’t have a Patrol team,” a tearful sister of the deceased told journalists. “Even if the police had made an attempt with their sirens, the [attackers] would have run away.”

The attack which lasted close to 45 minutes is said to have succeeded because distress calls placed to the emergency lines of the Sogakofe Police went unanswered.

Shortly after the murder, angry residents poured onto the main international road running through Sogakope, blocking it in their demand for the arrest of the gunmen.

 At a press conference this morning, the angry residents warned that if within three days, the robbers are not brought to book, they will take the law into their own hands.

“The Police should find the killers within three working days, the perpetrators of this crime should be found and brought to book. Else, we have decided to vent our spleen and anger on the whole nation by blocking this Sogakofe Bridge,” vowed Maxwell Nukutor, an opinion leader of the town.

According to him, “this is our way of reckoning our displeasure towards what has been happening in the community.”

The Sogakofe Police, which has been accused of negligence claim they have  opened an investigation into the issue and that they have launched a manhunt after the robbers who used cement blocks to break through the bulletproof and burglarproof barricade of the deceased’s house.

 In addition to murdering Marcus Mawutor Adzahli in his own home in the early hours of Sunday, the robbers also stabbed his wife in the shoulder and put a bullet into the head of his daughter.

After having their ways with the family, the robbers fired triumphant warning shots as they drove out of town, it has been reported.

Before massing up at the Police station, the angry youth had first marched to the Police barrier there and sacked all the officers on duty.