Kipo Sumaila, 50, was shot dead by unknown armed men on Monday, October 31, 2022, on the Ejura-Nkwanta-Nyinase road in the Ashanti Region.
A team of police officers responded to the robbery scene after receiving a distress call from Philip Appiah, Assemblyman of Ejura-Nkwanta.
They discovered a 255 Massey Ferguson tractor with the registration number AS 2736 Y parked in the middle of the road, with deceased Kipo Sumaila, 50, lying in a supine position in the tractor’s trailer.
The body was taken to Ejura Government Hospital and placed in the morgue awaiting autopsy.
Intelligence gathered led Police to St. Luke Hospital Kasei and found victims Ibrahim Iddrisu aged 40 with gun wounds in the stomach and right hip in critical condition as well as Masawudu Sumaila aged 20, son of the deceased also with a minor injury at the back receiving treatment at the emergency unit.
Victim Masawudu Sumaila told police that he and his dead father were on board the tractor coming back to their village of Kpaliguni around 1830 hours when they were attacked by three armed men, three of whom were of Fulani origin.
According to the victim, one of the armed men demanded that the father hand over all of his money, but he refused and instead charged at the armed man, who shot him twice in the neck.
The robbers stole an unspecified amount of money as well as some of the victims’ mobile phones.
Regrettably, the aggressors had already fled when the police arrived on the scene.
The police, on the other hand, have warned informants to provide credible information in exchange for their arrest.
Meanwhile, victim Ibrahim Iddrisu who was receiving treatment at St. Luke’s hospital, Kasei passed on in the early hours of Tuesday.
His body was transferred to the Ejura Government Hospital mortuary.
