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Another member of a group of armed robbers who allegedly trail people arriving at the Kotoka International Airport to their homes and rob them has been arrested.
The suspect, Bright Akakpo, 22, alias Mumini Danjuma, was arrested at the Kporvi barrier on September 24, 2009 in a passenger bus.
The Daily Graphic in its September 24, 2009, edition published the story of the arrest of a man suspected to be the leader of the group, Magnus Otroku, alias Kobby, on September 16, 2009.
This was after one of Otroku's accomplices, Nana Arhin, had been arrested at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle offering some passports belonging to some of their victims for sale.
A Toyota Yaris saloon car, with registration number GR 1097 Y, which the gang used to trail their victims, has also been impounded.
The registration number of the car was found to be that of a KIA Sportage car, while a spare number plate GR 5723 Z was also retrieved from the boot of the vehicle.
In the story, it was reported that two other members of the gang, identified only as Bright and Biggie, were yet to be arrested.
The police say they suspect that Biggie is the same as John Kofi Fiagbedzi, alias Spider, alias Leon, on whom the police had placed a GH¢4,000 price tag.
Briefing the Daily Graphic in Accra Tuesday, the Madina Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Paul Ayitey, said following the arrest of Kobby and the subsequent publication of the story in the national daily, the police had intelligence information that Bright and Biggie were planning to escape to Togo for fear of being arrested in Ghana.
He said the Accra Regional Police Command provided a crack team of officers to support the Madina police at Kporvi.
He said at about 4:30p.m. on September 24, 2009, a Madza passenger car pulled up at the barrier with the suspect, Bright, sitting on the front seat.
Chief Supt. Ayitey said when the police interrogated the driver he indicated that they were from Accra but passed through Frankadua to Ho enroute to Aflao.
According to him, Bright allegedly confessed to taking part in seven airport robberies together with other persons.
He said a search conducted at Bright's place of abode in Accra led to the retrieval of a revolver, which the suspect had allegedly used in a number of robberies.
The police said the modus operandi of the gang was to wait in their car at a Filling Station near the airport and trail their victims to their houses before robbing them of personal effects and other valuable property they brought from abroad.
Source: Daily Graphic
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