Police hunts for car snatchers

The Police have mounted an intensive search for three persons believed to have snatched an Opel Kadet taxi cab belonging to Nana Kwasi Buor, a linguist of Ayomso in Asunafo District of the Brong-Ahafo Region.

A Source close to the police told the GNA that two of the suspects, Albert Owusu and Ernest Addo went to the Police Station at Goaso and introduced themselves with some particulars as personnel working at the Accra Central Police station.

Owusu and Addo and a female accomplice, whose name was not immediately known, have since bolted with the taxi with registration number AS 3621 R and all efforts to locate them have proved futile.

Mr Kwaku Addo, the linguist's son and driver of the vehicle told the GNA that his father bought the vehicle from one Asiamah of Kumasi Magazine for 12 million cedis, which was paid in two instalments.

The driver said at about 7.30 Hours on February 4, a young man in plain clothes chartered the taxi from Mim to Goaso and during the journey the passenger asked him questions that suggested that he knew where the taxi was bought and the amount involved.

Mr Kwaku Addo said at Goaso, the young man directed him to park at a spot and signalled another man dressed in police uniform to join them.

Later, a woman also entered the taxi, and the gang claimed that the vehicle was stolen from Accra and investigations had shown that it was in Goaso so he (driver) should hand over the car and its particulars.

The linguist's son said the group agreed that the taxi be kept at the Goaso police station while the driver informed Nana Kwasi Buor to accompany them (suspects) to Kumasi to ascertain the truth.

The police realized the next morning that the suspects and the taxi were nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile all attempts to locate Asiamah in Kumasi have not been successful.

Meanwhile, information from the Accra Central Police indicated that Albert Owusu and Ernest Addo do not work there.