A public-school teacher believed to be in his late 30s has died after an angry mob accused him of armed robbery and subjected him to ruthless beating in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region.
The teacher, Alex Nsoh, taught at the Feo R/C Primary School until he came under the mob attack at Bongo-Soe, a suburb of the Bongo District, and died shortly afterwards from the severe wounds he sustained from the attack.
The Assemblyman of the Awukabiisi Electoral Area, Daniel Awuure, told Word FM, a media outlet at Zuarungu, capital of the Bolgatanga East District, that some youths had been so frustrated about a recent wave of armed robbery incidents in the area and that they suspected the teacher was involved in the latest robbery operation upon which he was beaten and killed.
A businessman, Bernard Nsoh Aloogro, was reportedly robbed in the latest robbery operation at the Bongo-Soe Market. The alleged robbers chiseled their way into the businessman’s store and made away with Gh¢13,000, CCTV cameras, a television set and a decoder among other items.
“Alex Nsoh was attacked because the youth in the area have been studying the recent robberies in the area and had credible information about one Kwame Kambonga and one Alex Akawagre as among those who were carrying out the armed robberies,” the Assemblyman told Word FM’s Gaspard Ayuureneeya.
Word FM also gathered that Kwame Alex Akawagre was captured by the youths and he is currently in police custody in Bongo whilst Kwame Kambonga is at large.
Whilst the mob was beating the teacher, a combined squad of police officers from the Bongo District Police Command, the Upper East Regional Police Patrol Team and the Upper East Regional Motorbike Patrol Team came to his rescue. He was rushed to the Bongo District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The hospital’s Medical Superintendent, Dr William Gudu, attributed teacher’s death to “multi-organic damage and neurogenic shock secondary to mob assault”.
Gaspard Ayuureneeya.