POLICE COMMANDER WARNS CRIMINALS (D/G Wednesday February 18, 2009. PAGE 40)

THE Upper East Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police Alhaji Hamidu Mahama, has warned that criminals who intend to take the relative calm prevailing in Bawku to perpetuate crime will not have it easy.
He said the Regional Police Command had intensified its patrols and was firmly on the ground to deal with any criminal activity.
DCOP Mahama said this in an interview with the Daily Graphic on Sunday after meeting with various opinion leaders in Bawku in the wake of the death of a sanitary inspector last Saturday.
While calling on all those with information that could lead the police to arrest the perpetrators of crime in the municipality, he also gave the assurance that the people would be protected to enable them to go about their normal duties freely.
The 48-year-old Mr Sayibu Adam Sunka was shot in the head and killed while travelling from Garu to Bawku last Saturday at about 5pm.
Information had it that the deceased, a sanitary inspector, who had earlier in the day responded to a call to examine an animal meant for slaughtering, was killed while returning home after performing that task.
Police investigations revealed that on reaching a community called Lalsaa, near Bugri, he was shot and hacked to death, while his black Sukida motorbike with registration number NR 3764 X and a mobile phone were taken away.
A search of the crime scene, a river bed, by the police investigation team revealed one spent AA cartridge.
Meanwhile, the Bawku Municipal Security Committee has called on residents of Bawku to remain calm while the police and related security agencies take steps to resolve the issue.
Members of the MUSEC made the appeal when they visited the bereaved family to console them .
The MP for Bawku Central, Mr Adamu Daramani, appealed to the youth to remain calm and trust the security agencies as they had all that it took to investigate the matter. “We cannot afford to go back to those dark days,” he said.
Members of MUSEC together with the MP later visited the crime scene. The deceased has since been buried in line with Islamic beliefs.