Fugitive cop killer grabbed

...after raping woman at gunpoint

Tema (Greater Accra) - A dismissed soldier, who escaped from police custody, took away an AK 47 assault riffle and later shot dead a detective, has been apprehend by the Tema Community I police. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when the ex-serviceman went to rape a woman at gunpoint.

A report monitored on Adom FM at Tema says early January, this year, the dismissed soldier, Felix Dzifa Apusa, 26, was detained by the police at Dzodze in the Volta Region for an offence. He reportedly broke jail and took with him an AK 47 assault riffle, which he handed over to armed robbers for an operation.

The gangsters were arrested during one of their raids, but Dzifa escaped to Tema and took residence at Site 2. On February 27, this year, he went back to Dzodze, armed with a pistol, fired and killed the detective Sergeant W. Agbeko, who was in charge of his case.

He was said to have killed the detective because the cop refused to destroy the docket on his case, in spite of an emissary he sent to the investigator. Dzifa, who is described as the most wanted criminal by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), of the Ghana Police escaped back to Tema.

Over the weekend, Dzifa, who reports say slept with at least three women against their will, went to a dead end in his criminal activities when he allegedly raped a married woman at gunpoint in his ‘ghetto’ Site 2. The woman told the police that Dzifa met her on the way to the market and pointed the gun (pistol) to her head and marched her into his ghetto. He used his belt to lash her severely in the room and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her.

Traumatised, she went home and informed her husband. The two reported the incident to the police at Community I where four armed men were detailed to effect his arrest. On seeing the police, Dzifa reportedly attacked with a shot. The police returned fire and after a few exchanges, he surrendered and was sent to the station.

The police at Ho on hearing of his arrest asked that he be sent to them to face the other charges. Latest information indicates that he has been sent to Keta to assist in other investigations. It was revealed that Dzifa’s last unit was the First Battalion. He robbed at Wuraba, near Denu, and fled to Lome where he continued his robbery activities until he was chased out and he fled back to the country.