From George Ernest Asare, Kumasi.
There was drama at Asafo, a Kumasi suburb, when a driver who detected that his girlfriend was sleeping with another driver in his own bedroom, quickly alerted the police that he was being attacked by armed robbers.
The quick response by the police created the drama when they realised that Abena Achiaa, nursing a six-month-old baby girl, had locked the lover boy in a wardrobe to escape detection.
Hours after hiding under a pile of clothes, the “armed robber” was released from captivity, sweating profusely and weak apparently from suffocation due to inadequate oxygen in the “cell”.
Moments after it was detected that the suspect was in the room, neighbours who were attracted to the scene and had thronged the house started hooting at the lovers.
Police source told The Mirror that the complainant, identified only as Appiah, who got wind of the relationship between his girlfriend and fellow driver left for Accra on Thursday, February 11, 2010 with a bus full of passengers and the expectation was that he would return to Kumasi the following day.
However, on his way to Kumasi the next day, he lied to his girlfriend when he called to inform her that he was staying in Accra for another day.
The source said unknown to the girlfriend the complainant had been hinted that the suspect had sneaked into his bedroom.
Family sources also told The Mirror that the complainant arrived at the house around 2a.m. on Friday and found his door locked, so he knocked and called Achiaa to open but she refused, causing Appiah to bang on the door at regular intervals.
The situation, according to the source, attracted a number of tenants and neighbours who also joined the fray and called on Achiaa to open, but she flatly refused, causing Appiah to call in the police.
The source said it was when the police arrived at the scene and also banged the door that Achiaa finally opened it.
It said when they realised that Achiaa was alone in the room Appiah decided to check the wardrobe and therefore asked Achiaa to open, but she refused.
That action of Achiaa, according to the source, created more suspicion and this caused the police to intervene and took the keys from Achiaa, opened the wardrobe only to detect that there was someone in it.
The police are, however, investigating the case.
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