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4 Grabbed Over Robbery, Murder Incident At Wassa Agona

The police in the Western region have arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in a robbery and murder case at a fuel station at Wassa Agona.

 

The suspects were arrested over the weekend.

 

Three of the suspects were grabbed while fleeing the scene, the police said.

 

The robbery incident led to the murder of one security guard on January 28, 2023.

 

The four suspects have been identified as Francis Ebuka, Wisdom Justway, Samuel Chibuzor and Kingsly Okechuku.

 

Per a statement from the police, the suspects took an unspecified amount of money together with the filling station’s CCTV Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and mobile phones belonging to the victims.

 

They also physically assaulted the fuel station attendants.

 

“Upon receiving information concerning the robbery attack, Police patrol teams within the catchment area mobilized and proceeded to the scene and in the course of the operation arrested suspect Francis Ebuka, Wisdom Justway and Samuel Chibuzor who were fleeing the robbery scene on a motorbike.

 

“A search conducted on them led to the recovery of a black hood, a handbag containing two mobile phones and an amount of Twenty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty-Two Cedis (GH₵ 20,722.00).”

 

The last suspect was arrested at a hotel near Bogoso.

 

According to the police, an amount of Forty-Four Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty-Two Cedis (GH₵ 44,852.00), suspected to be part of their booty, was retrieved from him.

 

“Other items recovered from the suspects include the DVR components of the CCTV setup stolen by the suspects together with two pinch bars and a Ghana Card belonging to one of the victims.”

 

 

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini

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