Police arrest five armed robbers

Nkwanta, Aug 17, GNA - An armed robbery gang of four Togolese and a Ghanaian who terrorised traders and the public at a section of the

Nkwanta/Hohoe/Accra highway were on Thursday arrested. The robbers, within the spate of five months, robbed traders and commuters at a portion of the road where mobile phone network accessibility is unavailable. The curvature and dip of that portion of road made it convenient for the robbers to erect barricades to stage their criminal acts because drivers have to slow

down. The gang members are, Amadou Oumaru, 60, Sumaila Mahamadou, 36, Kossi Jonathan, 45, Innocent Nayo, 45 and Andrews Kwame Danso, 40, the Ghanaian. Mr David Ampah-Bennin, the Volta Regional Police Commander, told the Ghana News Agency that the robbers were arrested in a cottage in the forest after

robbing traders on August 11 through the vigilance of a hunter. He said a pump action gun with 18 live cartridges, machetes, ladies purses, spoilt mobile phones and sim cards were retrieved from them. Mr Yao Atitso, a commercial driver who suffered multiple machete wounds on his head when they were waylaid by the robbers, said the robbers instructed

them to lie on the ground face-down. He said the robbers searched them thoroughly and took their cash, mobile phones and other valuables.