KOMBIAN'S ACCOMPLICE ARRESTED IN BAWKU (PAGE 3, DEC 28, 2010)

THE police in Bawku have arrested a 31-year-old man suspected to be an accomplice of the jailed fugitive, Johnson Kombian.
Mamudu Ndekugre was apprehended at Zabugu, a suburb of Bawku, at the weekend. At the time of his arrest, the police found on him an AK47 rifle with about 100 rounds of AK47 rifle ammunition, as well as pistol ammunition.
Police sources in Bawku told the Daily Graphic that the suspect had been on the police wanted list as the main partner of the hardened criminal, Kombian, who was arrested in Togo and jailed for breaking jail.
Kombian is also alleged to have murdered two policemen.
Ndekugre, popularly known in Bawku and its environs as “Kpankpe” (dried Guinea fowl), has also been on the wanted list for a very long time for his alleged roles in some high-profile robberies and motorbike snatching.
According to a police source, the suspect was the one who shielded and accommodated Kombian at Bugri anytime Kombian was wanted by the police for various offences, including the alleged killing of policemen at Nakpanduri and other communities in the Northern and Upper East regions.
He is also said to have operated with Kombian and other members of a robbery gang that terrorised and robbed passengers on buses that plied the Bawku-Cinquansi route and other roads in the area and deprived them of valuable items and huge sums of money.