Mampong midwifery school demands justice for ‘murdered’ staff

The management and staff of the Mampong Midwifery Training School in the Ashanti Region have made a passionate appeal to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to investigate and thoroughly look into the circumstances leading to the shooting and killing of a staff of the school and his brother.
The management of the school believes that if the police men who committed this atrocity were a little bit professional, they would not have ended innocent lives just like that. They therefore demand justice and assure the general public that the school would follow the matter to its logical conclusion.
Francis Gbene, a 33-year old tutor of the Mampong Midwifery and Nursing Training School and his brother were gunned down by members of a police patrol team on 10th February, 2016 at 3am at Mampong when the police mistook them for armed robbers.
At a press briefing at Mampong, the Principal of the school, Madam Mercy Kporku, told journalist that on Wednesday 10th February, 2016 at about 1:00am a tutor called one other tutor to call the police regarding a robbery incident and the tutor called his colleagues including the victim to inform the police.
According to the narration, the police quickly responded but on arrival gave two warning shots at the back of the bungalow after they had searched the place and found no one and so they drove off.
The principal said after about an hour the police men came back again and told her that they had arrested the robbers and so she should accompany them to go and see them only to go and identify her teacher and the brother lying in a pool of blood.
According to the principal the victims and herself pleaded much with the police to take them to the hospital since they were not armed robbers but the police men refused and drove them to the charge office until about 4”35am and at 4:45 they passed on.
“Management is therefore demanding answers for the kind of conversation that was going on between the police and the victim before the last shooting. Why did the police kept firing when the victims were not firing back if indeed they were armed robbers and also why upon their identity as a teacher and his brother, the police kept and refused to take them to the Hospital”. This and many other issues management of the school thinks must be investigated to ensure Justice.