Three people have been busted by the police last Saturday for allegedly robbing a household at Gravel pit near Ayimensah in the Ga East District of the Greater Accra Region.
The suspects Albert Owusu Ansah, 22, driver, Sheriff Joseph Bangora, 22, loading boy and Richard Eshun, 20, driver’s mate, are in the custody of the police assisting in investigations, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Cephas Coffie, the Adenta Divisional Police Commander told the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday.
He said the police have mounted a search for the arrest of two others who are on the run.
ACP Coffie said on October 4, at about 9a.m. Mustapha Saliuh and his wife Marina Anset of Oyarifa Gravel Pit area reported to Ayimensah Police Station that at about 2a.m, he (Saliuh) was at work while his wife, two children and a house help were at home when the robbers invaded the house and robbed them.
ACP Coffie said the five men wore face masks, one of whom had a machete, another a pistol and the other one wielding a single-barrelled gun, broke into the house using a cement block.
The Commander said one of the men holding the machete hit Marina’s left arm and they robbed her of her wedding ring, Iphone SM mobile, unspecified items and cash of GH¢850 and bolted.
He said on October 5, at about 3p.m the Ayimensah police received information that the armed robbers were in a hideout at Ashiaman and with the assistance of the Ashiaman police, the suspects were arrested.
ACP Coffie said investigations in the case were ongoing and that the suspects would soon be arraigned.
He called on the public to volunteer information to the police to help in the arrest of the other accomplices.
BY ANITA NYARKO-YIRENKYI
