Top diplomat robbed by vicious gunmen

The Statesman carries that around 10:30 am on Wednesday, October 31, hours before a daylight bank robbery occurred at the Spintex Road, a suburb of Accra, a more gruesome, life-threatening ordeal was visited upon a 53-year-old wife of the First Secretary of the Indian High Commission at their plush residence at Ablemkpe, also in Accra.

The robbery, according to The Statesman, has left Mrs Mohey, the Secretary’s wife in such a serious state of shock that she is now under sedation, so much afraid that she is constantly crying and urging her husband, H.R. Mohey for them to return to India immediately and never to come back to Ghana.

Speaking to the paper on Thursday, the Indian High Commissioner, Arun Kumar Banerjee, showed his disappointment at the slowness with which the Foreign Ministry and the police especially, had reacted to the incident.

The Statesman says it all started when three men scaled the wall of the home of the Moheys, forcing open the window of the living room and removing the security grill. The men went straight upstairs into the couple’s bedroom and thrusted the barrels of two handguns onto the forehead of the traumatised lady of the house and bombarded her with some queries. They then threw her into the bathroom and locking the door and ransacked the bedroom.