Police investigations into the murder of the Deputy Managing Director (Operations) of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), Mr Rokko Frimpong, have revealed that before he was gunned down last Thursday night, the deceased had been hunted for more than one year. Before four gunmen dumped his body outside his Sakumono residence that fateful night, police sources said Mr. Frimpong had informed close relatives and a friend about serious threats to his life but made no such report to the Tema Police. To ward off the threats, Mr Frimpong was said to have raised the wall of his house and told close associates not to show anybody where he lived. The police sources further noted with disappointment that on the night of Mr. Frimpong's murder, a neighbour who had seen a car parked close to the deceased’s house for an unusually long time never took any particular interest and did not take any details of the vehicle. They said it was only after the sound of a gunshot that the neighbour rushed out to find the assailants speeding off in the waiting vehicle. The receipt of death threats, according to the sources, revolved around allegations that the deceased had supported a faction in a chieftaincy dispute in his home town near Kwadaso in Kumasi, workplace events and land disputes involving the deceased’s brother. The police sources gave no further clues but disclosed that although the deceased was said not to have been directly involved in the land and chieftaincy disputes, he was suspected to be the financier of the family and a faction in the chieftaincy dispute. "The threats had been on for about a year now until he was murdered. He told his close relatives about them and on another occasion he confided in a friend about the threats," confirmed Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) John Kudalor, the Tema Regional Police Commander. ACP Kudalor then explained that the police would have instituted measures to protect not only the deceased but his household and property if he had alerted them about the threats to his life. He urged members of the public to take their personal security seriously and to inform the police as soon as they were threatened. Mr Frimpong's murder on Thursday night was described by the police and neighbours as a "professional job". The gunmen did not take any of the deceased’s personal belongings or property and left after shooting him, an act which ruled out robbery as a motive for the murder. Source: Daily Graphic