The family of the slain officer of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in Bawku in the Upper East Region, has appealed to the leadership of the GIS to collaborate with other security agencies to ensure that justice was served in relation to the killing of the officer.
The family says it is saddened at the loss of their beloved son and expressed the hope that the GIS will take steps and liaise with other security agencies to bring the perpetrators of the heinous and barbaric act to book.
Speaking on behalf of the family, Cephas Motey, a younger brother of the deceased appealed to the GIS to ensure that the body of the officer was brought back to Accra with dispatch to enable the family to fast-track the funeral planning process.
Mr Motey, a lawyer spoke on behalf of the family when the Comptroller General Of the GIS, Kwame Asuah Takyi led the leadership of the GIS to call on the family to express their condolences, reports Graphic Online’s Benjamin Xornam Glover from Klagon in Greater Accra.
Philip Motey, the immigration officer was killed in Bawku in the Upper East Region last Monday. He was in a vehicle with two other immigration officers when unknown assailants pounced on them and fired indiscriminately into their vehicle.
Motey was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bawku Presby Hospital.
The two other officers are receiving treatment at the hospital, one in critical condition at Tamale and the other at Bawku.
The deceased, an Assistant Inspector of Immigration, 42, was in the company of Eric Ayibiya, 30, and Laurence Afari, 42, when they were shot multiple times while moving in a blue sedan vehicle in Bawku by the unknown gunmen.
