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Four suspected armed robbers who attacked the premises of Top International Construction Limited, a Chinese construction company, on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 have been arrested by the Nkawkaw Police.
The gang, including a day-time security man of he company, were said to have gone to the company's premises at about 12: 30 a.m. but were resisted by its night security man, who engaged them in a scuffle during which they inflicted wounds on him.
The suspects fled into nearby bush when the security dogs on the company's premises started barking during the scuffle.
The four, who are all residents of Nkawkaw, are Mohammed Oti, the 54-year-old security man working with the firm; Alex Boateng, 27; Samuel Asumaning, alias 5K, 27; and Kwasi Adusei, a 27-year-old taxi driver.The suspects are currently in police custody assisting in investigations.
Briefing the Daily Graphic at Nkawkaw, the Nkawkaw Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Paul M. N. Hwini, said the police received an intelligence report early in the morning of June 2, this year that a Tico taxicab, with registration number GE 2529 Z with all its tyres deflated, had been abandoned at Nsuta Junction, a suburb of Nkawkaw.
He said when a team of policemen, who were already patrolling the area, was sent to the scene and searched the vehicle, they retrieved two masks, gloves and offensive weapons.Upon further investigations, he said the police were able to trace the owner of the vehicle, one Yaw Osei, who told the police that he only gave out his taxicab to Adusei to use the previous night.When Adusei was arrested the same day, he also led the police to effect the arrest of the remaining three accomplices at various locations.When a search was conducted in their homes, the police retrieved a quantity of stolen electrical cables, machetes, hacksaws, masks and a toy pistol which they used in their operations.To disguise the identity of the vehicle, Chief Superintendent Hwini said the suspects used a black Sellotape to cover the registration number and replaced it with GE 8828 L and GE 28282 L at the back and front respectively.
He assured residents of Nkawkaw that the police, as part of a directive to intensify their operations to curb armed robbery and drug trafficking before, during and after the December elections, "are firmly on the ground to make Nkawkaw an unattractive place for criminals to operate”.Source: Daily Graphic
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