2 Fugitives arrested
Two of the suspects who escaped from the cells of the Abofour Police Station last Tuesday have been re-arrested.
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Identified by the police as Kofi Agyare, aka Bongo, and Iddrisu Yahaya, alias K2, the suspects were arrested from their hideout upon a tip-off.
Their arrest came after a 10-day ultimatum had been issued to the two policemen on duty at the station to produce the escapees.
Six suspects escaped from the cells at Abofour near Offinso.
Arrest
The Offinso District Police Commander, Superintendent of Police Mr Michael Boateng, confirmed to the Daily Graphic that Agyare and Yahaya were arrested yesterday.
He said they were arrested upon a tip-off at a village close to the Abofour Forest.
He expressed the hope that the police would be able to arrest the rest of the escapees on the expiration of the ultimatum.
Mr Boateng said the police were still searching for the other four escapees and urged the public to assist in arresting them.
Background
Six suspects who had been arrested and kept in police custody at the Abofour Police Station in the Offinso South municipality in the Ashanti Region escaped from police cells last Tuesday.
The escapees were identified as Yahaya, Agyare, Kwame Frimpong, aka Rambo; Pasoley Mahmoud, Baba Evans and Akwasi Grumah.
Two of them, Evans and Grumah, were to be put before the Offinso Circuit Court last Tuesday, both on suspicion for murder and stealing.
They had been brought from the Kumasi Central Prison to be put before the court.