Kumasi, Jan 19, - Seven Fulani
arrested in connection with the murder of two police officers on the
Drobonso-Kumawu road were on Friday put before the Asokwa District Court.
Abdulai Musah, Osmanu Issaka,
Mohammed Issaka, Issah Jawo, Alhaji Ali Issah, Suleiman Adams and Aliu Amadu
are facing provisional charges of conspiracy and murder.
Their pleas were not taken and
they were ordered to be held in police custody to make their next appearance on
February 02.
Their three other accomplices
identified as Alhaji Buba, Gariba and Fuseini are on the run.
The deceased officers – Inspector
Adolf Mutse and Constable Prosper Ashinyo were shot and killed, while returning
from night patrol duty.
Constable Enoch Okyere, another
officer, suffered serious gunshot wounds during the attack and is on admission
at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
Assistant Commissioner of Police
(ACP) Asumadu Okyere-Darko told the court presided over by Mr Peter
Oppong-Boahen that the accused persons met to plan the attack on January 09 in
the house of Suleiman Adams at Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region.
They had plotted to wage war on
officers of the security services over the on-going operation to forcibly
remove nomadic Fulani herdsmen and their cattle from the Ashanti portion of the
Afram Plains.
Mohammed Issaka reportedly
offered to providing funding and promised each person cash of GH₵60,000.00 together with 30 cattle.
He was said to have made down
payment of GH₵1,000.00 to the
five persons who carried out the January 11 attack that left the pair dead and
their colleague hurt.
The plea for bail by lawyers for
the accused persons was refused by the court.
GNA
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