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The Tema Police have arrested 11 suspected criminals at separate operations carried out in the metropolis.
Five of the suspects, John Ampabilla, 30; Abibu Ibrahim, 24; Yaw Eric, 26; Kubetesu Martin, 22; and Afua Benewah, 21, were arrested at about 1 :45 a.m. last Tuesday morning at the premises of Continental Trading Limited, a subsidiary of the Finatrade Group with 17 bags of sugar each weighing 50 kilograms.
The driver of a KIA truck which was used to cart the cargo, while another accomplice, however, managed to escape.
Also arrested was Mohammed Siedu, who bolted with gunshot wounds after a July 14 shoot-out with the police on the Accra-Tema Motorway.
Three persons, Munkaila Yahaya, Issifu Musah and Charles Dikro, who were providing treatment for Seidu at Ashaiman Zongo have, however, been arrested to assist the police in their investigations.
Two other suspects of Nigerian nationality, namely Maxwell King Chizoguzi, 30, and Onuha Otisi, 35, who were arrested at Lashibi, a suburb of Tema, had in their possession two laptops on which several letterheads belonging to different government institutions were found.
The over 20 letterheads with accompanying documents found in their custody were the Republic of Ghana Company Registration Act, Bank of Ghana treasury department and unit letter heads, Ministry of Mines, Ministry of Finance payment schedule, MOFEP monitory unit and cash movement authorisation certificate.
Others included Valued Added Tax (VAT) Service certificate of exemption, Internal Revenue Service, parliamentary identity cards, National Security monitoring unit, a letter purported to have been signed by the Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffour to the Controller and Accountant General, among others.
Also found in their possession was Office of the President letterhead.
Briefing the Daily Graphic at Tema, the Tema Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Augustine Gyening said, his outfit had a complaint from Vodafone Ghana Limited of the activities of the two Nigerians who were running a false promotion using a telephone number 0303- 403189 belonging to the network.
According to him, suspects sent out several messages to unsuspecting customers informing them of winning a lottery out of a random selection by the network to reward its loyal clientele.
That, according to ACP Gyening, was a ploy by the two suspects to dupe unsuspecting clients some of whom they had already taken monies from for the processing of a special identification pin to enable them to access their winnings.
The two Nigerians, according to the regional commander, admitted producing the documents in their caution statements after preliminary investigations carried out from the institutions had revealed that they were forged.
He said the 11 suspects would be put before court after investigations. He appealed to the general public to volunteer information on suspicious activities within their neighbourhoods as the police made strides towards the protection of the citizenry.
Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana
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