Tamale — While Ghanaians were anxiously waiting for the outcome of the outstanding Tain presidential runoff election, a terrible incident occurred in the Northern Region, leading to the death of a Police Constable, Abraham Tetteh, in the early hours of Saturday January 3rd this year.

Constable Tetteh, 29, was accidentally shot in the head at close range by a team of military personnel, who were assigned for a highway patrol, after an alleged robbery on the Kokobila-Nasia road, near Walewale around 3:30 a.m.

The Chronicle gathered that the military team came face to face with Constable Tetteh and three other officers, who were manning a police check point. On the arrival of the military team, the late Constable, according to a police source, was, as usual, trying to undertake his legitimate checks on the military vehicle with a torchlight, when he was suddenly shot in the head by one of the soldiers.

The Chronicle is withholding the name of the soldier, and the registration number of the vehicle, for security reasons.

Meanwhile, it is believed that a police Highway Patrol Team, that was also detailed to go after the same highway robbers, only met the body of the Late Constable Tetteh lying in a pool of blood.

However, there was no evidence of highway robbery when the police team patrolled the Kokobila-Nasia road through to Walewale.

It is not yet established the circumstances that prompted the soldier to kill Constable Tetteh, who was in a police uniform, and manning a police check point.

The Chronicle source in the military in Tamale admitted that the other police officers who were on duty with the late Constable, exhibited some professionalism and tolerance, otherwise there would have been exchange of gunfire.

The Northern Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ofosu-Mensah Gyeabour, in an interview, confirmed the incident, and sympathised with the deceased family.

According to him, the police authority had invited the family of the late Constable Tetteh for the necessary arrangements to be discussed.

DCOP Gyeabour disclosed that the Command had set up a high-powered investigation team, led by the Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Peter Baba Atianak, to ascertain the circumstances that led to the death of Constable Tetteh.

He, therefore, assured the deceased's family of proper investigations by both the police and the military commands in the Northern Region.

According to him, both the military team and the police were all on lawful duties, and thus described the incident as surprising.

DCOP Gyeabour also indicated that his office would be diligent and cautious in dealing with the matter, in order not to soil the good relationship between the military and the police, which had existed for the past years.