Police Service Goes After Sogakope Police -Over Negligence for Murder and Violent Crimes

The Volta Regional Police Command promised to investigate the Sogakope Police Command in allegations of deliberate refusal to respond to distress call during the killing of the South Sogakope assemblyman, Marcus Mawutor Adzahli over the weekend.

At a press briefing today Wednesday, March 2020, the Volta Regional Police Commander, DCOP Edward Oduro Kwateng, said: “At the instance of various concerns raised by the teeming youth regarding the professional conduct of Police personnel stationed at Sogakope, the Command is interested in inquiring into these concerns to enable it, sanction officers, who are found complicit.”

“…this assurance is non-negotiable and the results will soon manifest,” the Commander vowed.

On Tuesday, an angry protest of residents of Sogakope turned bloody as three people were reportedly 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 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 assault 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 on Tuesday 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.

 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.