By Isaac Arkoh/ Victoria Agyemang, GNA
Cape Coast, Jan. 17, GNA – Two suspected car
snatchers have been arrested by the Central Regional Police Command when they
attempted to sell a Hyundai Getz Taxi cab with registration number ER 797-18 at
Ola-black star, a suburb of Cape Coast.
The suspects, Prince Tettey, Gaetan Eke and
a third accomplice who is currently on the run allegedly pulled a knife and
ordered the victim who was driving the vehicle to stop and surrender the
ignition key of the taxi cab at Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region.
Briefing the media on Thursday, Chief
Superintendent Reuben Asiwoko, the Central Regional Crime Officer said the
suspects were arrested on Tuesday, January 14, at about 1730 hours when the
Police received intelligence that three young men were selling a taxi cab at
the said location.
He said further investigations and
interrogation revealed that, on Tuesday, January 14, at about 1000 hours, the
victim, Kwame Gyimah, 28, a taxi driver was driving the Hyundai Getz Taxi, when
two unidentified men hired him from Dodowa to Ghana Christian International
Senior High School near Sota, a suburb of Dodowa of which one other person
joined them on their way.
Mr Asiwoko said half way on the journey, one
of the suspects pulled a knife and ordered the victim to stop and surrender the
ignition key of the vehicle.
He said the driver resisted and was attacked
and subjected to severe bodily torture where they pulled him out of the vehicle
and bolted with the car.
He said the victim was rescued by a good
Samaritan who sent him to the hospital where he is currently responding to
treatment at the Shai Osudoku Government Hospital.
GNA