Gang of five, including a female and a juvenile, robbed commuters on highways in the Bono and Ashanti regions. Suspected robbers highway identified by victims. Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested five highway robbery suspects including a juvenile.
According to a police statement, the suspects were apprehended on November 16, 2021, while committing robberies on routes connecting the Bono East Region’s Nkoranza and ‘Techiman and the Ashanti Region’s Ejura Sekyedumase Municipal region.
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The suspects, identified as Sagu, Rashid Ibrahim, Ibrahim Iddrisu, Musah Arijuma and a female, Ajara Sagu, together with a 14-year-old, whose name is being withheld, were arrested at Ejura after extensive police surveillance on their activities. “On the spot search on the suspects and juvenile led to the recovery of ten assorted mobile phones, one Infinix charger and a lady’s handbag. Other items suspected to have been robbed from commuters and retrieved from them included one unregistered Apsonic Aloba motorbike and an amount of Two ‘Thousand, Two Hundred and Seventy-Nine Ghana Cedis (GH¢2,279.00),” the police statement said.
During police investigations, a driver who was allegedly robbed by the suspects on November 15 was believed to have identified the gang, while other victims have also come forward to identify the culprits and their stolen property.
The police in the statement signed by its Director of Public Affairs, ACP Kwesi Ofori, served notice of assurance to the public that it “shall not relent in making our communities safe and peaceful.”
