Three policemen at the Lolito Police barrier on the Keta-Dabala road in the South Tongu District, are to face a service enquiry for leaving their duty post earlier than they should have. They should have knocked off at 6 am on Sunday but they left at 11 pm on Saturday. Three hours after their departure, armed robbers struck using their base to attack passengers and rob them of their valuables, a source at the South Tongu Police Divisional Command told the Times. Two of the policemen were from the Agbakope Police Station and the other from Dabala Police Station. The source said the Divisional Commander ordered the arrest of the policemen when he visited the scene of the crime. The Volta Region Police Commander, Ampah Bennin, confirming the story to the Times on telephone said that the arrest of the three officers was part of measures to instill discipline in police personnel. He said failing to report for duty was a serious offence in the police service noting that "If they had been at post such an incident would not have occurred.” Two armed robbers used an unmanned police barrier at Lolito to rob traders on an Accra-bound bus. According to the traders, the robbers barricaded the road as was usually done by the police and when the bus reached the barrier, two men in black attire emerged from the darkness ordered the driver and his mate out of the vehicle at gun point. They collected the driver's mobile phone and GH¢I,660 before shooting into the vehicle injuring the women in the process. The attackers dragged and beat up the women before robbing them of their valuables. They said on seeing a vehicle coming from the direction of Dabala the robbers fled into the bush. Two of the three traders were referred to the 37 Military Hospital while one has since been discharged. This robbery was the fourth in four weeks at the same area and call for swift action to stop the practice. Source: Ghanaian Times/Ghana