The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, has put a GHS10,000 bounty on the head of the prime suspect, Eric Kojo Duah, in the murder of two police officers at Kasoa in the Central Region on Wednesday, 28 August 2019.

The IGP announced the bounty when he paid a visit to Kasoa and the families of the killed cops.

The officers, Sergeant Michael Gyamasi and Lance Corporal Awal Mohammed, were killed by gunmen while on duty on the Kasoa-Winneba road.

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder.

It brings to five the number of police personnel killed in a month.

On 30 July 2019, Corporal Agatha Nana Nabin with the Northern Regional Police Command was shot dead at a police checkpoint on the Tamale-Kumbungu road in the Sagnarigu District.

Armed men in a grey saloon car shot her when she stopped their vehicle at the checkpoint.

The killers took away two rifles belonging to the deceased while her other colleague escaped.

On 19 August 2019, Corporal Bernard Antwi, 37, attached to the Manso Nkwanta Divisional Command in the Ashanti Region, was found dead after working hours at Manso Abodom in the Amansie West District. 

On the same day, another policeman, Lance Corporal Alhassan Asare, was also found dead while on duty at Akim-Swedru in the Eastern Region.

The police are investigating the murders.