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Suspected armed robbers arrested in
Sunyani
Sunyani, Jan. 2, Ghanadot/GNA- The Police in Brong Ahafo
Region have arrested three members of a gang of suspected
armed robbers who allegedly planned to rob a traditional
ruler at Ntotroso, near Kenyasi.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday, Assistant
Superintendent of Police Emmanuel Lartey-Lawson, Regional
Crime Officer, said the robbers, Kwaku Bladanga, Issah
Mensah, 19 and Abass Musah, 18, all from Kumasi in the
Ashanti Region.
He said at about 1230 hours on December 31, last year a
joint patrol team of police and the military on patrol
duties spotted a Nissan Urvan vehicle with registration
number GR 7538X belonging to the Opportunities and
Industrialisation Company (OIC) on the Sunyani estate road
and signalled the driver to stop, but the driver ignored and
sped off.
The crime officer said the team gave the vehicle a chase
till the occupants abandoned it and took to their heels, but
the team arrested Bladanga on whom a locally manufactured
pistol was found.
During interrogation Bladanga disclosed that five of them
were recruited in Kumasi by one Taller and Alhaji, residents
of Sunyani to join them in special operations in Brong Ahafo.
ASP Lartey-Lawson said at Ntotroso the robbers seized the
Urvan bus from the OIC office after they subdued the
watchman, but they found it difficult to enter the chief's
house so abandoned that operation.
On their way back to Sunyani the robbers attacked a fuel
filling station but because they could not get any money
from the owner, Mr Zuruka Nai, 45, they shot him at the
groin, right thigh and arm and left him.
ASP Lartey-Lawson said residents who heard the gunshots
rushed there and took the fuel dealer to the regional
hospital where he is on admission.
The robbers again attacked a provisions store and stole
about GH¢500 and some provisions.
The crime officer said Mensah and Musah were later arrested
on board a vehicle at the Kumasi station in Sunyani and
appealed to the public to assist the police with information
for the arrest of the four other suspects.
Meanwhile Deputy Commissioner of Police James Oppong Boanuh,
Regional Police Commander, has advised the general public to
be on the alert even though the Christmas festivities was
over since the robbers could take them by surprise.
He gave the assurance that the patrol team would continue to
operate to guarantee the safety of the people to enable them
to go about their duties without any hindrance.
GNA
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