POLICE ASKED NOTORIOUS ROBBER TO PREPARE FOR WAR

The Acting Northern Regional Police Commander, ACP Mathew Appiagyei has sent a strong warning signal to the notorious armed robber Johnson Kombian a.k.a. Burger and his gang who recently laid ambushed and gunned down three Policemen in Nakpanduri to prepare for “a war” with the Police.

The Police Commander who is alarmed by the death of two out of the three Policemen who were attacked by the harden criminals has vehemently vowed that the Police administration would soon pick up Johnson Kombian from wherever he was hiding to face the full rigors of the law.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with savannahnews ACP Appiagyei maintained that, the Police Service was now 100% convinced that Kombian masterminded the shooting of the three Policemen, who were on patrol duty in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District killing one of them on the spot.

The three officers were Constable Prince Agyare (died on the spot), Constable Owusu Frimpong (died later at the Hospital on Thursday October 21, 2010) and Lance Corporal Osei Bonsu (seriously injured and has been flown to the Police Hospital in Accra).

He said the presence of Johnson Kombian in the district was a complete threat to the lives of the people especially women who had since 2000 till date been terrorized, raped and robbed of their property.

ACP Appiagyei maintained that the criminals could not continue to terrorize the Police and other innocent people in the Bunkpurugu area, and thus dropped the hint that the Police were devising practical measures to enable them smoke Johnson Kombian and his gang from their hideouts.

The killing of the police officers in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo area has become a major test to the Ghana Police Service to prove their efficiency and effectiveness in conducting professional investigations to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime to book.

ACP Appiagyei however hinted that the Northern Regional Police and some men from the National Security had been placed on high alert as part of the comprehensive search mounted on the criminals.

At the moment, the Police Administration has placed a sum of Three Thousand Ghana cedi (GH¢3,000) ransom for any person who can release credible information that will lead to the arrest of Johnson Kombian before he strikes again.

Johnson Burger Kombian has been on the Police wanted list for several years now and has gained notoriety as a constant jail-breaker.

It is on Police Records that Johnson “Burger” Kombian is currently Ghana’s most wanted armed robber whose operations sometimes extend to neighbouring Togo and Burkina Faso.

Between 2005 and 2010, the notorious criminal has killed so many people through Highway robberies especially women. He single handedly killed two soldiers in Bimbilla and robbed them of their weapons, broke into Police armory at Nakpanduri and made away AK47 assault riffles and uniforms. He also physically assaulted police officers in the area and took away their weapons.

However, the former Northern Regional Police Commander, ACP Awuni Angwubutoge mounted a search on him and finally arrested Kombian.

But through the negligence of the officers at the Tamale Central Prisons, Johnson Kombian broke out of jail for the third consecutive time, hence the catastrophe befalling the Police officers.

Savannahnews has learnt that just as the Police are adopting measures to arrest Johnson Kombian either dead or alive, he has also been sending text messages threatening to kill any Police Officer who would dare cross his line.