A group of legal practitioners, has petitioned the office of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, to ensure that investigation into gruesome murder of Lawyer Richard Badombie is treated as a matter of urgency.

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The group of legal practitioners, calling themselves friends of Richard Badombie, in it petition pointed out that they suspect a foul play of the purported highway robbery which lead to the death of their colleague.

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The group revealed that no valuables in the Lawyers vehicle were taken by these armed men.

“From the aforementioned narrative, we suspect that the deceased was deliberately targeted to be killed since the assailants did not rob them or take away anything.

“While the motive for this murder is unknown at this moment, only proper and effective investigations can establish the identities of the perpetrators, hence the need to unravel this assassination.”

They, therefore, appealed to the office of the IGP investigation this heinous crime and ensure all the culprits are prosecuted.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has placed a GHS20,000 bounty on the heads of the suspected armed robbers who shot and killed Lawyer Badombie during his journey on the Bole-Bamboo highway in the Savannah Region.

“The GBA stands ready and prepared to give a reward of Twenty Thousand Ghana cedis (20,000.00) to anyone who volunteers credible and legitimate information that will lead to the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators of the crime.”

Background

The deceased was a lawyer with Lartey, Badombie & Co. Associates in Accra.

He was killed by suspected higwayway robbers while travelling to Jirapa in the Upper West Region with some relatives on Saturday, 28 May 2022.

The robbers, who emerged from the bush, stopped the vehicle on which the lawyer was travelling between Banda Nkwanta and Nuoyir.

Source: The Independent Ghana Â