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CID takes over investigations into recruitment scam

CID takes over investigations into recruitment scam

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has taken over investigations into the recruitment scam in which two persons are alleged to have defrauded more than 200 people.

According to the Abuakwa District Police Commander, Superintendent of Police Mr Joseph Nyaaba, the police had gathered that the victims of the scam were not in the Ashanti Region alone but also the Eastern, Brong Ahafo and Upper West regions.

That, he explained, informed the decision of the police hierarchy to ask the CID Headquarters to take over investigations into the case.

He said the name of a third person (which name he did not mention) had popped up and the police had mounted a search for him.

Background

The Abuakwa Police last Friday arrested two persons — Sampson Appiah Dankwa, 50, and Alex Abena, 40, — for allegedly collecting nearly GH¢1 million from their victims on the pretext of aiding them to enlist into the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and the Ghana Police Service.

Some of the victims lodged a complaint with the police at Abuakwa and initial investigations led to the arrest of the suspects upon a tip-off.

False presentation 

Dankwa is said to have posed as a police officer, while Abena posed as a military officer with the name Captain Halima Nuhu.

The police retrieved from the suspects copies of military and police letterheads and recruitment-related materials which the suspects used to convince their victims.

According to Mr Nyaaba, Dankwa was formerly the Assistant Head Teacher of the Daaba DA Junior High School in the Atwima Nwabiagya District in the Ashanti Region.

He said Dankwa, realising that he would be arrested, quickly sought transfer from the Ashanti Region to the Kwamedikrom DA JHS in the Sefwi area in the Western Region.

He said the police arraigned the suspects before the Nkawie Circuit Court immediately after their arrest.

Mr Nyaaba said the court, presided over by Mr John Michael Abbey, remanded the accused in police custody to reappear on September 13, 2016.

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