Highway Robbers strike on Hohoe-Jasikan Road

A gang of nine highway robbers at about 0600 hours on Monday staged an operation on the Odomi-Bowiri stretch of the Hohoe-Jasikan road robbing travellers of cash and mobile phones.

There was no casualty but a KIA truck loaded with beams had its windscreen shattered from a gunshot.

Mr Kwabena Otuo Acheampong, Hohoe Divisional Crime Officer, told the Ghana News Agency that the robbers emerged from the bush at that section of the highway and flanked the driver of the KIA to stop but he ignored them resulting in the shot.

He said commuters on an Accra bound Metro Mass bus were however dispossessed of some personal valuables including money and mobile phones, when the robbers caught up with them.

Mr Joseph K. Akortia, Akpafu-Odomi Assemblyman, said the highway robbers brandishing sophisticated weapons shot the front side of the School bus of Lackham Preparatory, which the time was conveying about 50 pupils to School on a four-mile journey.

He said the robbers, some in marks, noticing it was a school bus fled into the adjoining bush.

Mr Akortia said an Asafo group from the Akpafu area was pursuing the robbers in a rainy morning as some farmers report of seeing some strangers on their farms.

Mr Acheampong appealed to members of the general public to be vigilant and volunteer information leading to the arrest of suspects.

He said the Police had activated its intelligence and patrols urging the people to cooperate.**