Residents of Dunkwa-On-Offin in the Central Region are currently living in fear as a result of several robbery attacks in the area.
Over the weekend two separate robbery attacks were recorded on the Ayanfuri-Dunkwa Road.
Commuters were robbed of their monies and belongings at gunpoint.
In one of the robbery incidents, which occurred at Adwinpanaye and Kwamiprakrom on the Ayanfuri-Dunkwa road around 7pm on Saturday, the robbers, numbering about five and said to be of Fulani extraction, subjected passengers to severe beatings after taking their possessions.
A reporter of DAILY GUIDE in the Brong Ahafo Region, Vivianna Mensah, who was on board one of the vehicles during the attack, escaped with bruises on most part of her body after she and other passengers were subjected to beatings by the robbers.
Narrating her ordeal to the paper, Ms. Mensah said she travelled to the area to attend her grandmother’s funeral and was returning from Ayanfuri to Dunkwa around 7pm on Saturday in a taxi cab.
Upon reaching a sharp curve, they saw a parked taxi cab and realized that the road had been blocked with logs.
According to her, within seconds, the robbers, who wielded guns, came from the bush and ordered the passengers to surrender their monies, mobile phones among others, which they obliged.
She said the robbers then dragged them from the taxi to the floor hitting them while pointing guns at them.
She said they warned them not to raise their heads.
In the course of the attack, which lasted for about an hour, two vehicles emerged and the passengers were also robbed of their belongings.
She said the police later came to the scene shooting after the robbers had already fled into the bush.
She lost her Galaxy tap, GH¢1,200, wallet containing her ID cards and ATM card, among others.
Meanwhile, the military personnel at a base at Ayanfuri have managed to arrest two of the suspects. The suspects were arrested the following day at the scene of the incident.
