Ghana police have arrested four persons who attacked a filling station at Wassa Agona in the Western Region on Saturday 28th January 2023.
The suspects are Francis Ebuka, Wisdom Justway, Samuel Chibuzor and Kingsley Okechuku alias Kofi Kingsley.
In a statement released by the Ghana Police Service, it said the suspects in the course of the robbery also subjected the fuel attendants to severe beatings and made away with an unspecified amount of money together with the filling station’s CCTV Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and mobile phones belonging to the victims.
According to the police, upon receiving information concerning the robbery attack, they quickly dispatched patrol teams within the catchment area mobilized and proceeded to the scene.
The statement said in the course of the operation, suspects Francis Ebuka, Wisdom Justway and Samuel Chibuzor were given a hot chase as they fled 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).
“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), suspected to be part of their booty, was retrieved from him,” the statement read in parts.
It mentioned other items recovered from the suspects including 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 said to be currently in police custody and would be put before the court to face justice.
The police assured the public about their commitment to continue to work tirelessly to keep the communities safe.
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