A POLICE patrol team has arrested a 30-year-old Fulani from the Republic of Togo for his involvement in armed robbery at Tadzewu in the Akatsi District in the Volta Region last Tuesday.
The suspect, Amadu Grumah, was alleged to have led a gang of armed robbers to rob travellers of various sums of money and personal effects running into thousands of Ghana cedis on the Tadzewu-Akatsi road.
Briefing the Daily Graphic at Ho last Wednesday, the Volta Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr David Ampah Bennin, said the police received a distress message at about 2.30 a.m. that five armed robbers had blocked the main road from Tadzewu to Akatsi and were terrorising travellers.
According to DCOP Ampah Bennin, the police patrol team responded quickly and on arrival at the scene, the robbers fled into the bush.
He said the community members gave the robbers a hot chase and in the process, grabbed Amadu who had sustained gunshot wounds.
He said the police rushed Amadu to the Dzodze Government Hospital in the Ketu North District from where he was referred to the Police Hospital in Accra.
DCOP Ampah–Bennin cautioned the public that the “Operation Calm Life” was still in force and that anybody involved in any criminal activity would be met with the full might of the law.
The regional commander appealed to the general public to be on the lookout for people seeking herbal treatment for gunshot wounds, since it was suspected that some of the robbers might have been wounded.
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