[contextly_sidebar id=”qHchbALhsMgaadZEB7keTz5eeQJwCxm8″]The deceased, Richmond Ofori, also called Papa Yaw, died instantly after the two gunmen who were on a motorbike shot him twice.<\/p>\n
The deceased’s friend, 25-year-old Malik Ezekiel, who was also shot in the legs, is currently on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n
The assailants were said to have bolted with an unspecified amount of money.<\/p>\n
Assembly Member for Kyekyere-Kyeraase Electoral, Michael Adu Poku also narrated to Citi News<\/strong> that when he got to the hospital, he was told\u00a0that \u201cthe mobile money operator was dead on arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n He noted that “after the incident, everybody\u2019s attention was on the victims so no one took note of the assailants who committed the crime.”<\/p>\n The deceased’s body has since been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital awaiting an autopsy.<\/p>\n Attacks on mobile money operators<\/strong><\/p>\n This incident adds to the growing number of robbery attacks at Mobile Money spots.<\/p>\n The Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP George Alex Mensah has attributed the increasing spate of attacks on mobile money businesses across the country to the proliferation of operators.<\/p>\n He said it is impossible for the Police Service, with its limited numbers, to provide security cover for all such businesses.<\/p>\n Proffering remedies to the challenges, DCOP Mensah also emphasized the need for the creation of a regulation that will determine the location of mobile money operation points.<\/p>\n \u201cThe banking sector is such that there is a law that without the presence of an armed officer you cannot open a bank so at the banks, if by 8.oclock, the police officer is not there, you cannot open,” he noted.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Hafiz Tijani\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 31-year-old Mobile Money operator has been shot dead by some unknown assailants at Kronom-Kyeraasi in the Afigya Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region on Saturday evening, the latest in a string of attacks on such businesses. The Kodie District Police Command confirmed the incident to Citi News. [contextly_sidebar id=”qHchbALhsMgaadZEB7keTz5eeQJwCxm8″]The deceased, Richmond Ofori, also called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":383268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[1390,2164],"class_list":["post-400593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-mobile-money","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DCOP-George-Alex-Mensah.jpg\")