EX-VALCO WORKER AND NEPHEW KILLED BY ROBBERS(Back Page)

Story: Mary Mensah
A former employee of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) was shot dead together with his nephew at his residence at the Regimanuel Gray Estates at Tema Community 18, during the early hours of yesterday.
The victims — Alhaji Mumuni Hamidu, 56, and Dauda Mohammed, a 20 year-old Computer Science student of the University of Development Studies (USD) — were shot in the abdomen and head respectively.
The Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Adu Poku, told the Daily Graphic that two men, wielding guns, besieged the house of the deceased at about 2:30 a.m.
He said the gunmen first entered House Number S7, which was next to the deceased house, but did not attack the inmates.
They rather scaled the wall into the deceased house which was number S8, DCOP Adu Poku said.
According to him, the two men broke the back door which led into the kitchen and entered the main hall where they found Dauda sleeping and ordered him at gunpoint to take them to his uncle’s bedroom.
DCOP Adu Poku said Dauda led them to the bedroom door and they broke into the room where the deceased and his wife were sleeping.
He said the deceased, who was visually impaired, got up from the bed and started struggling with the two men who had pointed a gun at him.
The wife managed to sneak into the bathroom and locked the door and while there, she heard two gunshots after which the gunmen left the room.
He said the after waiting for sometime, the wife came out of the bathroom and first saw her nephew lying in a pool of blood with a bullet wound on his head.
The police officer said the woman also found her husband covered with blood from a shot in his abdomen.
She then started screaming, which attracted neighbours to the scene and who conveyed the victims to the Tema General Hospital, where there were pronounced dead.
The bodies have since been deposited at the Tema General Hospital mortuary for autopsy while investigations continue.