Tamale, March 24,GNA - The Chief of Garezegu, suburb of the Tamale Metropolis, Yakubu Andani, is reported to have been slain on Monday at about 7pm by a group of young men as he rode back home from a visit. Forty six people had been picked up by the police for screening and on them were found four locally manufactured guns and amulets.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Angwubutoge Awuni, Northern Regional Police Commander, told the media in Tamale on Tuesday that the youth waylaid the chief and murdered him in cold blood as he was riding his motorbike home from a visit to the village of Nyakpagu.

He said some police personnel had been deployed to the area where four houses had been burnt to maintain law and order.

The chief was enskinned on March 14 by the Sagnarigu Chief amidst confusion and protest from the youths of Garezegu. In a related development, the Police chief said a 60-year-old widow Bibata Alhassan had been allegedly murdered in Yendi by Alhassan Sofo 27, her disabled a step-son.

According to the ACP Awuni, at about 7:45pm on Monday, the deceased who had taken a stroll to the local public toilet was stalked by the suspect. ACP Awuni said an eyewitness who attempted to arrest the suspect later abandoned him to the rescue of the deceased who was then grasping for breath as she kicked on the ground.

He said the suspect took advantaged and absconded into the bush and had since not been seen. ACP Awuni said the police was therefore appealing to the general public to volunteer information about Alhassan Sofo,the suspect.