Greater Accra Police Commander taken to Mallam

Two women believed to be girlfriends of armed robbers at the weekend consulted a Mallam, living near John Teye Memorial School, to deal with the Greater Accra Regional Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mr Kofi Boakye.

The women had sent a list, which had the name of ACP Boakye and that of suspected armed robbers currently in Police custody, to the Mallam.

They were also having in their possession a newspaper cutting of two of the most wanted armed robbers, who were arrested in 1999 after being involved in an armed robbery at Tema.

Mr Bright Oduro, Greater Accra Regional Crime Officer, told the Ghana News Agency that on Saturday Police tailed one Erica, a girlfriend of Ataa Ayi, a notorious armed robber now at large and Becky, the girlfriend of "Old School," a convicted armed robber, to the cottage of the Mallam.

Mr Oduro said the two ladies, who were in a taxicab, went to the cottage and it was after they had brought out the pictures and the list containing the names of robbers in Police custody and that of the Regional Commander that they approached and arrested them.

"The two ladies could not give any tangible reason why they had those pictures and the list of names," he said.

Police investigations are continuing.