A 34-year-old man alleged to have led five armed robbers to assassinate Detective Chief Inspector Jacob Nyame in Kumasi on April 13, 2009, has been arrested by the police. Kwabena Takyi, the suspect, was apprehended on Saturday at a lorry station at Kakasunanka Number One near Afienya in the Greater Accra Region while awaiting his accomplices to allegedly attack a former member of the senior national football team, the Black Stars. Two foreign-made pistols, one of which was fully loaded and a rastaferian wig which Takyi used while on “duty” were also retrieved. Meanwhile, the police have confirmed that a bench warrant for his arrest had earlier been issued by the Osu Magistrate Court for his alleged involvement in a number of high-profile 4x4 car-snatching cases. Briefing newsmen in Accra on Monday, the Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police, (ACP) Christian Yohuno said the police had information that Takyi and a group of people were travelling to Afienya to snatch a 4x4 vehicle belonging to a former player of the the Black Stars. Based on that information, two patrol teams were dispatched to Kakasunanka Number One, near Afienya to lay ambush and at about 8p.m, Takyi and another person arrived at the lorry station. According to ACP Yohuno, upon realizing the two were trying to get a vehicle to move to their intended target, the policemen arrested Takyi while the other person escaped. He said a search on Takyi showed he had two foreign-made pistols, one of which was fully loaded. ACP Yohuno said following the arrest of Takyi last Saturday, the Accra Regional Police Command had received information from the CID Headquarters in Accra and the Ashanti Regional Police CID that Takyi was wanted in connection with a number of car-snatching robberies and the murder of Detective Chief Inspector Jacob Nyame on April 13, this year. Five suspected armed robbers allegedly shot to death Chief Inspector Nyame in his home at Medoma, a developing community in the Kwabre East District in the Ashanti Region. The deceased was shot twice in the waist and the rib by the gunmen in an execution style, following whic the cop bled to death. ACP Yohuno recalled that Takyi’s name was mentioned by one Peter Kwaku Aziagborlu after he was arrested when the gang was planning to attack a house at Kakasunanka on the Tema-Afienya road on August 7, 2009. In the said operation, the police planted personnel in the house but the gang did not show up. ACP Yohuno said the police however, had information that the gang was planning to attack another house at East Legon on Saturday, August 9, 2009 to steal a 4x4 Infinity vehicle. Other members of Peter’s gang, he said, were identified only as Takyi, Kobby alias Ajaguer, a barber at Ashaiman; Sefadzi, Jackie and Kofi. It was during the plan to raid the house at East Legon that Peter was arrested, ACP Yohuno added. He said the police are doing all they can in the fight against armed robbery by making sure they strike ahead of the armed robbers. He, therefore, appealed to members of the public to continue volunteering information to the police. Source:Daily Graphic