Police Discredit Viral Picture Showing Albert Donkor Eating With Persons Purported To Be Police Officers

The Public Affairs Directorate of the Ghana Police Service has debunked the description of some five persons in a picture with deceased Albert Donkor as police officers.

The picture circulating on social media features six people including “robbery suspect” and now deceased Albert Donkor who is clad in a red shirt with the rest of them in black.

The picture was posted by the fixthecountry group with the information that the five in black are police officers in Nkoranza.

“From our well-trusted source from his (Albert Donkor) friends most of Albert’s friends were policemen”, the group furthered.

But in a statement dated May 26, 2022, the Ghana Police Service stated that the persons captured in the picture are neither police officers in Nkoranza nor Ghana.

“Our investigations have revealed that this picture of Albert Donkor and his five friends, none is a police officer, which was taken at a funeral at Boana in the Nkoranza North District, approximately 20 kilometres away from Nkoranza”, the statement from the police said.

The police service believes the news is a calculated attempt to soil its reputation.

“Members of the general public are, therefore, urged to treat such an act with the contempt that it deserves”, it concluded.

Background

Albert Donkor, who according to residents of Nkoranza was a businessman but according to the police, was a robbery suspect, died during a police operation according to the police.

“In the Bono East Region, police gathered intelligence that a suspect, Albert Donkor, and the gang of five suspected armed robbers were involved in several robbery attacks in the region.

“Based on this intelligence, an operation was conducted during which suspect Albert Donkor was shot. He was rushed to the Holy Family Hospital for medical attention but was pronounced dead on arrival”, the police side of the story reads.

But relatives of the deceased said the suspect was arrested by the police from his house at dawn to assist in police investigations and was informed of his death after many days.

A section is alleging that Albert was intentionally shot by the police officers.

“So when he said he recognized some armed robbers as police officers from the town he knew what he was talking about:

“He was abducted from his house while asleep by these so-called criminals in uniform calling themselves police officers, sent to an unknown location and shot dead”, the fixthcountry group posted on Facebook.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini