Man kills cop at Badu

The deceased, Inspector Awusi Yakubu, 59, was said to have been slashed several times on the forehead and the back with the assailant’s machete.

Sensing danger, a police constable who had been ordered by the deceased to go in for a rifle shot and killed the assailant.

The bodies of Inspector Yakubu and the assailant have been deposited at the Wenchi Methodist Hospital mortuary while investigations into the incident continue.

The Wenchi Divisional Police Crime Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Vincent Adotey, who briefed the Daily Graphic, said the assailant went to the police station at about 7.15 p.m. holding a machete and two long metal hooks used for cooking pots, panting and shouting that some people at Susuapa, a village near Badu wanted to kill him.

He said the man met Inspector Yakubu and one constable at the station and they tried to calm him down, but that proved futile and sensing danger, the officer ordered the constable to go for the rifle.

Mr Adotey said while Inspector Yakubu was entering the charge office, the assailant attacked him and slashed his forehead and back with the machete.  Inspector Yakubu, who was bleeding, fell down and sensing danger, the constable shot at the assailant, killing him instantly.

Inspector Yakubu was, however, pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.