Gunmen ambush MCE …bring your car or we shoot you

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Asokore Mampong Municipal Asembly (AMMA) would have been shot dead last Friday night if he had refused to hand over his official vehicle to two men who ambushed him and demanded at gunpoint that he should hand over the vehicle, a Toyota Hilux with registration number GW 2473-16.

The fear-stricken MCE, Alhaji Alidu Seidu, calmly handed over the vehicle to the men so as to save his own life. They left him in the middle of the road and drove of at top speed without harming him.

The robbery case is being investigated by the Kenyasi Police.

Details are still sketchy on how the two gun men managed to stop the vehicle of the MCE and whether they knew who he was or it was a pure coincidental robbery.

The incident, according to a police report sighted by THE NEW PUBLISHER , happened at a location close to the Agya Wusu Junction around 11pm.

The report said the hoodlums snatched the car, registered GE 2473-16, and other valuables including phones from the MCE and they absconded.

Giving detailed accounts of the robbery case, the report said Alidu Seidu was on his way to Asokore Mampong when he suffered his fate.

“He was on his way to Asokore Mampong through Agya Wusu Junction, heading towards Boobai with Toyota Hilux vehicle” that fateful day.

It added that on the way, two men wearing face mask and holding guns, ordered him to stop and they snatched the government car and bolted.

No arrest had been made yet when the report was being filed on Sunday afternoon.

Sometime in November last year, just some three months back, there was a similar incident at Wa in the Upper West Region where the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Wa West, became an armed robbery victim.

Police later arrested three suspects, Shaibu Haruna, 24, Mumuni Partie, 30, and 60-year-old Waah Bonyimbora who were all believed to be part of a gang that attacked the DCE and some travellers on the Ga-Wechau Highway.

A single barrel shotgun and a locally manufactured pistol were retrieved from the suspects.

Again, in May last year, some eight armed robbers shot and killed the official driver of the District Chief Executive of the Amansie South.

There were two other killings in that incident where the armed robbers attacked a gold dealer and stole four pounds of gold and GHS15,000.

In that incident, Police later said investigations revealed it was not a targeted killing of th

“From the information we picked up on the ground, it was just unfortunate that the DCE’s driver fell victim in this robbery. From the information we gathered, the robbers had attacked the gold dealer and just after they had finished, they started firing.”

“He [the driver] happened to chance on the robbers and unfortunately he was shot and killed. So it isn’t that he was a target of this unfortunate attack,” the Ashanti Regional Police PRO, ASP Godwin Ahianyo, said on Eyewitness News on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

The Amansie South District Security Council has since met over the incident.

The driver of the DCE, William Asante Bediako, was said to have been returning from a public sensitization campaign on COVID-19 with a District Health Director when the robbers shot him through the windscreen of the vehicle.

More soon on the Friday incident involving Alhaji Alidi Seidu, MCE for Asokore Manpong.