The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare says he has been traumatised since the death of the policeman in the Ablekuma Fan Milk bullion van robbery.
In a shocking incident of daylight robbery, General Corporal Callistus Amoah was killed during an attack on a bullion van in Ablekuma Fanmilk, a suburb of Accra on 22 June 2023.
Videos capturing the incident were circulated on social media depicting some members of the public coming to the aid of the fatally wounded policeman, who was rescued from a pick-up truck.
Amoah succumbed to his injuries at the scene.
Speaking at a pre-burial service at the St. George Catholic Church in Tesano, Accra, to honour the slain police officer on Friday (14 July), Dampare said: ” Because of police officers like Callistus, Ghana is at peace”.
“I have been in an unmeasurable pain which I have not been able to measure and define. Callistus is a colleague to all of us at the top and to some extent a friend, but to me, he is a brother because the village he comes from is close to a village I have adopted.”
Dampare added: “As I stood by his casket, I was telling God, why can’t I take his place for him to take my place so that in death I feel no more pain … that is how painful the death of my kid brother is to me and by extension my colleagues up here.”
The police administration also used the occasion to promote Callistus Amoah posthumously.
Listen to IGP Dr George Akuffo Dampare in the attached audio clip below:
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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