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members of his household at his house in Dome Pillar Two, a suburb of Accra
in 2005;Nana Bretuo III, the Chief of Nyankumase-Adansi in the Ashanti
Region was killed on May 31, 2006; Nana Badu Boakye Dankwa of
MimAkyiase, near Kumasi, was also killed on December 12, in the same year.
Other cases involved Samuel Ennin, the Chairman of the Ashanti Regional
Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association, who was killed on February 9,
2007, and a 71-year-old Lebanese businessman, Zakaria Dennaoui, who was
killed on April 28, of the same year.
In January 2008, unidentified gun men shot and killed a 56-year-old man,
Alhaji Mumuni Hamidu and his 20-year-old son, Dawuda Mohamed at their
residence at the Regimanuel Estates near Sakumono.
In July of the same year, Kwame Kyei Apenteng-Mensah, Managing Director
of Summit Industries was also murdered.
This despicable act of suspected contract killings became severe in December
2013 when a 36-year-old Immigration officer, Kofi Quist Defor was murdered
in cold-blood by unidentified men in his home at Mataheko in the KponeKatamanso Constituency near Tema.
In that same year,Rosemond Nyampong of Stanbic Bank and Kwesi Sakyi
Prah, a Branch Manager of Zenith Bank were also brutally murdered by
unkown assailants.
The Chief of Joma, Nii Ayittey Noryatse, was in March 2014, found dead in
his room, a nearby village to Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region, with
police suspecting that he was shot.
A day after the Chief's murder report, Fennec Okyere, controversial hiplife
artiste, Kwaw Kese's manager was shot dead by unknown assailant(s) on
the morning of March 13, 2014 at his Manet Gardens residence on the
Spintex Road,in Accra.
Samuel Denis Ayibah, a 55-year-old businessman, was shot and killed by two
unidentified gunmen while parking his new Toyota Highlander vehicle with
registration number GT 449-14,in that same month of March 2014 .
It was also reported in the month of December 2014, the death of Ecobank
Gh Ltd Manager Richard Sallah, who was shot dead in his home at Abrepo in
Kumasi in the Ashanti region .
Subsequently in 2015, the chief of Atwima Koforidua , Nana Adusa Gyapong,
in the Ashanti Region,was gunned down by unknown gunmen after a visit to
My suggestion will be for the Ghana Police to be well resourced with tracking
gadgets,drones for monitoring actvities and maintaining satellite
surveillance,cctv cameras installed in several locations,recruit more personnel
to meet the UN standard and acquire more current crime technology to aid in
detection of crimes and criminals. I believe the above suggestions will aid in
controlling crimes adequately.