Tema, Sept. 27, GNA - The Tema Regional Police Command would on Thursday, September 28, hold an identification parade as part of efforts to unmask a suspected armed robber arrested on the Accra-Tema Motorway last week.
The suspect, whose name is being withheld, is believed to be a member of a robbery syndicate that had of late been attacking motorists on the Motorway at gun-point, according to a statement issued by the Regional Police Affairs Unit.
The statement, signed by Chief Inspector Yaw Nketia-Yeboah, in-charge of the Unit, said on September 19, the suspect and an accomplice now at large, attacked a DAF articulated truck between the new and old Ashaiman underpass, and wounded their victims. It said the two robbers came to the same spot the following day and attacked the driver of a saloon car at gun-point, but were met by a police patrol team which disarmed them.
The statement said one of the two suspects escaped and that the police retrieved from the other a locally manufactured pistol, nine live cartridges, and a Nokia mobile phone. The two men had reportedly robbed another driver of a broken-down truck of two Nokia mobile phones and 435,000 cedis cash. The statement called on members of the public, who have fallen victims to the activities of the suspect, to report at the Regional Police headquarters on September 28, to identify him.
