The suspected armed robbers in police custody
Six suspected armed
robbers including a nursing mother have been arrested by the Accra regional
police command for robbery.
The suspects have
been identified by the police as Moses Tetteh Kaizer, 20, machine
operator; Louis Mawunyor Dzedzom, 37, driver; Kwame Takyi Haruna Owu, 25, driver;
Kwabena Otibu, 29, phone repairer; Alhassan Abdulai, 42 and believed to be a
spiritualist and Eunice Dorkenu (wife of Takyi).
They were grabbed
in a two-week operation conducted by the regional command early this month.
According to the
police report, items found on suspects included a pistol loaded with two rounds
of ammunition, two empty shells of AK 47, five rounds of pistol ammunition, a foreign
pistol loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition and a spare magazine loaded with 11
rounds of ammunition as well as some dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
Briefing the media,
the Accra regional police commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Frederick
Adu Anim, said in November this year, Suspect Kaizer (the gang leader)
contacted suspect Takyi and informed him of an intended robbery operation in
Dansoman.
He said Takyi’s
task was to procure weapons for the robbery operation, which he agreed and further
recruited suspect Otibu from Toma, near Amasaman to join the gang. Kaizer again
recruited suspect Dzedzom as a driver, for the operation.
On November
20, 2019, at about 5:00pm, according to DCOP Anim, police acting on
intelligence trooped their secret location at Sukura where four of the suspects
were grabbed smoking dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp in preparation
for the said operation.
Following further
interrogation, suspect Abdulai, a spiritualist who performs rituals for the
gang before they embark on their operations was arrested and the police found
on him a pistol and two rounds of ammunition and two empty AK 47 shells.
He continued that
their intelligence again led to the arrest of suspect Dorkenu, the wife of Takyi
as another accomplice.
On hearing of the
husband’s arrest, she handed over a foreign pistol belonging to her husband to
one Iddi (currently at large), in an attempt to conceal evidence against the
husband.
He revealed that
the arrest of Eunice led the police to the further discovery of five rounds of
pistol ammunition wrapped in a rubber bag and buried in the ground.”
DCOP Anim confirmed that the suspects had admitted to
the offence and further confessed to the police a series of crimes they were involved in which occurred in Accra,
including two robberies at an area near Trassacco, where victims were robbed
and raped and the robbery of mobile money shops at Atadeka and Zenu, all
suburbs of Ashiaman.
All the suspects
have been remanded into lawful custody as investigations continues and would
reappear on December 18, 2019.
(Lindatenyah@gmail.com)
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey
