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Sixty laptops belonging to students of the University of Cape Coast were stolen between January and April this year alone.
The incidents occurred at rented apartments around the main campus of the university popularly known as Diaspora.
Crime Officer at the Regional Police command in Cape Coast, Assistant Commissioner of Police Edward Kwartey Otumi said armed robbers stole the laptops at separate operations.
ACP Otumi said two suspects have since been arrested as a result of which eight laptops have been retrieved.
He gave their names as Edward Arhin and Ebenezer Jedu.
The suspects, he said are Information Technology experts who decode the stolen computers and resell them to the unsuspecting public.
He assured the police was on top of the situation.
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