The Kuntenase Police in the Bosomtwe District has launched investigations into yet another robbery incident  in the Ashanti region in which an official of Ministry of Food and Agriculture was shot dead.

Joseph Baah Tweneboah was shot in the presence of his wife and children at Abuontem Newsite in the Ashanti region last night.

The three armed men also inflicted wounds on  three of the deceased person's children and assaulted the wife before bolting with laptops, mobile phones and an unspecified amount of money.

Armed with AK 47 assault rifles, the robbers were said to have trailed their victim to the house and accosted him at about 7: 30 p.m and demanded that he surrenders all the monies in his possession.

On the orders of the attackers to surrender money in his possession, Mr. Tweneboah is said to have handed them a brown envelope containing an unspecified amount of money.  

Dissatisfied, the robbers insisted on getting more amid plea for mercy from the man as they led him to various parts of the house for search.  

They shot him in the back at close range inside the kitchen in the full glare of his family. Spotting black attire and face masks, they assaulted the already traumatized Mrs. Tweneboah who burst into tears, as her husband’s lifeless body lay in a pool of blood.

Kuntanase police responded to distress calls but they arrived too after the robbers had bolted.

Abuontem Newsite has large tracts of undeveloped plots of land lying in-between a few scattered residential apartments. There are no engineered roads so the footpaths which are overgrown with weeds have been turned into roads. 

District Commander, ASP Amponsah Asiamah, and personnel of the Crime Scene Unit were busy at the crime scene when Nhyira FM's Ohemeng Tawiah spoke to them.

He tells Nhyira FM police had a tough time locating the house in scattered settlement.

“Yesterday, as we were coming, let’s assume they [robbers] were in the act, we were coming. Because the whole place was bushy, if they happen to see that police vehicle is coming, they will attempt to just veer off into the nearby bush and it would be difficult for you to see them.”

Mr. Tweneboah’s death is the fifth of people killed in armed robbery-related incidents in the Region in the last one month.

The attacks are believed to be masterminded by a gang whom the regional police command is pursuing.

“What is left now is to investigate and find out those who are behind this serious crime,” says ASP Asiamah.