Widow of killed 'robber' challenges police to prove claims

The widow and relatives of one Kofi Asante who was shot and killed by Police on Sunday have petitioned the Inspector General of Police to probe the killing of their relative.

The Police insist Kofi Asante was an armed robber but the family claims otherwise.

The Police claim Asante was shot while partaking in criminal gangsterism at Sepe Tempon in the Ashanti region but the family disputes that.

The family claims the regional commander had earlier admitted to relatives of the deceased behind closed doors that the killing was an accident.

They are therefore expressing shock and surprise by the insistence of DCOP Augustine Gyening that Kweku Asante was a notorious armed robber.

They held a press conference on Wednesday morning demanding that the regional commander retracts his comments. Rev Prince Appiagyei Brempong is a brother of the deceased.

Kweku Asante’s 28-year old grief-stricken widow, Gladys Arko, told XYZ News her late husband could not have been an armed robber as the Police commander claims.

She said the Police should just let them have her husband’s body. The alleged armed-robber left behind a six-month old baby girl.**