Former Assemblyman for Diara South electoral area of the Savelugu Municipality in the Northern Region, Iddrisu Nurudeen, has on Thursday July 7, 2022 bravely exchange a gun battle with ten armed robbers, wounded two and retrieved two motor bikes in the process.
The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday upon a tipoff when the suspected robbers run away with five motor bikes suspected to be stolen at the nearby communities.
According to the former Assemblyman, he received a call from a friend to the effect that ten young men suspected to be armed robbers, wielding riffles with five motor bikes crossed the river and pass through Adayili a fishing community, and were heading towards Diara.
He said the armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen threatened to kill his friend when he try to interrogate them regarding where they were coming from with five motor bikes.
Idddrisu Nurudeen speaking on Diamond FM Siasa Saha a Dagbani Political Talk Show on Thursday July 7, narrated that ,“this morning around 6:20am in the morning, I received a call from a friend at Adaayili a fishing community to the effect that some people had cross the river with canoe with motor bikes. Upon questioning them where they were heading towards with five motor bikes, they threatened to kill him if he dare questioned them again. Through to their words, they pulled out AK47 riffles and fired a warning shot and the scene with the motor bikes”.
He further explained that, “the river is a short distance from the next community but because my friend wasn’t on a motorbike, he had to run back to alert the community members about what was happening. And before he got to the community they had already fled. He placed a call to me. By then I was in Diara town. So, I quicky rush back in a bid to intercept them on the way. Fortunately on my part, I met them in a top speed with the stolen bikes. So, I stopped in the middle of the road and saw them pulling out riffles and opened fire on me and I responded. And, in the process one of them sustained gun wounds and they fled, leaving one motorbike”.
“I pursued them to a community called Tunayili. We exchanged gun fire again, and I managed to shoot another one who his colleagues carried away with gun shot wounds, enabling us to rescue another motorbike. I pursued them to a thick forest along the road, and they manage to escape. All the two motor bikes are with currently with me in Diara”, he added.
Story By: Alhassan Yakubu |www.diamondfmonline.com |Ghana
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Please the community is Diare not “Diara”