WASSA AGONA: 4 suspects arrested for robbery and murder

By: Akpabli Daniel Yao | ignewss.com

Four (4) persons who attacked a fuel filling station and murdered a security guard in the early hours of Saturday, January 28, 2023, at Wassa Agona in the Western Region have been apprehended.

Police source said, the suspects, Francis Ebuka, Wisdom Justway, Samuel Chibuzor and Kinglsy Okechuku alias Kofi Kingsly in the course of the robbery also subjected the fuel attendants to severe beatings and made away with an unspecified amount of money.

The suspects also took the away the filling station’s CCTV Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and mobile phones belonging to the victims.

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The police upon receiving information concerning the robbery attack, mobilised the patrol teams within the catchment area and proceeded to the scene and in the course of the operation arrested suspect Francis Ebuka, Wisdom Justway and Samuel Chibuzor who were fleeing the robbery scene on a motorbike.

A search conducted on them led to the recovery of a black hood, a handbag containing two mobile phones and an amount of Twenty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty-Two Cedis (GH₵ 20,722.00).

The Police team further pursued the fourth suspect, Kingsly Okechuku to a hotel near Bogoso where an amount of Forty-Four Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty-Two Cedis (GH₵ 44,852.00), suspected to be part of their booty, was retrieved from him.

Other items recovered from the suspects include the DVR components of the CCTV setup stolen by the suspects together with two pinch bars and a Ghana Card belonging to one of the victims.

All four suspects are currently in Police custody and will be put before the court to face justice.

The Ghana Police Service (GPS) however assured the general public of their continue effort to work tirelessly to keep our communities safe.

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