Police have assured the residents of Wa Municipality and surrounding communities that it will continue to maintain law and order.

The Service said it will do so by ensuring that persons behind recent killings within the Municipality are arrested and prosecuted.

According to the Police, the area has been “saturated” to ensure the safety of the residents is protected.

“We wish to assure residents of the Wa Municipality and its environs that the special intelligence and investigation teams will continue to work around the clock with assistance from the affected communities to bring the perpetrators to face justice.”

“Operations and combat teams have also saturated the area to ensure the safety and security of all," it said in a release via its Facebook page on Monday, September 19.

Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) is heading to Wa in the Upper West Region to get a first-hand update on the death of some private security officers.

Already, the Police have retrieved the body of the 58-year-old security man who was allegedly killed Friday, September 16.

The body was found in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Wa on Sunday, September 18.

A local search team informed the police.

“We got to a point and identified some items we suspected to be human parts. We moved on to an uncompleted building, and we also found some strange materials there too,” a member of the local search team said.

“They [the police] came, and it was a very narrow grave that they buried one of the night security men we’ve been looking for,” he added.