A 41-year-old crop officer who worked with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in Kumasi, Joseph Baah Tweneboah, met his untimely death Tuesday evening after a group of three armed robbers shot him at close range at his residence at Aboantem near Aputuogya, near Kumasi.
Tweneboah, a father of six, was trailed from his office in the Kumasi metropolis to his residence at about 7pm when and shot dead.
The robbers took away his laptop, four mobile phones and an undisclosed amount of money.
According to the wife of the deceased, Esther Adomako, the three masked men accosted her late husband at the entrance of their house minutes after he arrived.
She said the robbers led him into the house and demanded money.
According to her, while demanding for the money, she, together with her children appeared on the scene and pleaded with the robbers but their plea was not taken.
She said it was during the plea that one of her children jokingly retorted that “as for this house, we don’t have money; all that we have are goats and other agric products.”
Angered by the child’s statement, one of the robbers gave the children and the wife a sound beating and ordered them to move to another room.
Mr Tweneboah was then dragged to the living room and shot multiple times in the chest.
Confirming the story to Graphic Online, the District Police Commander for Kuntenase in the Bosomtwe District, ASP Mr Asiamah Amponsah, said 10 minutes after the robbery attack, the command received a distress call.
He said two patrol teams were dispatched to the scene where they found the lifeless body of Mr Tweneboah.
The body has since been deposited at the Saint Michael Hospital Morgue at Pramso.
BY: Graphic Online
