Four more arrested over school robbery

Two more students of the Wesley Grammar School in Accra and two others wanted by the police for their alleged involvement in last week's raid of the school's accounts office have been arrested by the Asokwa Police in Kumasi.

The suspects, Kwadwo Tutu, 17, a final year student, Frimpong Baffour, 17, a second year student, Kwadwo Dankwa, a mechanic and Albert Obeng, a trader were rounded-up at their hide-out at Asokwa at the weekend.

About ?1.5 million being part of the proceeds realized from the sale of a money counting machine and other items stolen in the raid was retrieved from the suspects.

A police spokesman told the Times in Kumasi on Monday that the suspects were expected to be handed over to the Odorkor Police in Accra later in the day for further investigations and subsequent prosecution.

Tutu and Baffour were said to have teamed up with another final year student of the school, Richard Kankam 17, to break into the accounts office last Thursday and bolted with some items including a Sika Card and a money counting machine.

Kankam, who took custody of the Sika Card was arrested the next day in his attempt to cash some money at the Kokomlemle branch of the SSB Bank using the card.

According to the story, the bank authorities became suspicious and alerted the police when he failed to mention the password for the card so that the money could be cashed for him.

Tutu and Obeng were said to have traveled with the money counting machine and the other items to Kumasi where they sold them with the assistance of Dankwa and Obeng.

Kankam, allegedly told the police, that he and the other students including tutu and Baffour had planned a week earlier to set the school's administration block on fire.

On their arrival at the administration block, they changed their decision and rather opted to break into the accounts office. In the accounts office, they found a safe and a Sika Card and decided to break the safe and steal the money in it.

After a fruitless attempt to break into the safe, they took away the Sika Card, the money counting machine and other items.