MAMPONG POLICE ARREST SIX SUSPECTED ROBBERS (PAGE 40)

THE Asante Mampong Divisional Police Command has arrested six suspected armed robbers who were terrorising the residents at Yeji, Ejura Atebubu and Techiman.
The suspects whose ages ranged between 25 and 31 were arrested in their hideouts at dawn on May 30, this year following a tip-off.
They are Muhammed Yusif, Razak Akilu, Walidu Beliamidu, Abdul Kadri Adam, Mounzel Alhassan and Alim Yao.
Items retrieved from the suspects included a locally manufactured pistol, two unregistered motorbikes, two life ammunitions and a voodoo made up of a bull horn with feathers, empty shells, a whisk and calabash with 13 cowries.
Also found in the voodoo were two talismans, a waistband, a jaw of an unidentified animal with Arabic inscriptions, two pairs of scissors, a black mask, four containers of empty perfumes as well as a tasbii packed in a red bag.
The items together with the suspects are in police custody pending further investigations into the matter.
The Mampong Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Edward Oduro Kwarteng who briefed the Daily Graphic on the arrest said police would arraign the suspects as soon as investigations were completed.
He said following a series of complaints about the activities of the suspects in areas like Atebubu, Yeji, Techiman and Ejura among other
communities, the police decided to monitor their movements and swooped on them in their hideout at Yeji where the six were arrested.
Chief Superintendent Oduro Kwarteng gave the assurance that the police would intensify investigations on the suspects to ensure their speedy trial.
In another development, the Mampong Divisional Police Command has retrieved an Urvan mini bus which was snatched from its owner at gunpoint.
The vehicle with registration number AS 6143 C was snatched from the owner on May 9, this year at Apatrapa near Kumasi and was later abandoned at Abonkosu, near Mampong where police found it.
The vehicle has since been handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department in Kumasi to be given to its owner.
In a related development, the command has smashed a goat stealing syndicate and impounded a Hyundai Pony saloon car used for the operation.
Two goats that had been slaughtered were retrieved from the vehicle.
Two suspects who have been identified as Yaw Afriyie and Kwaku Grusah were arrested and are currently in police custody helping in investigations.
One of their accomplices whose name was given only as Gabriel is, however, on the run and the police have mounted a search for him.