Dan Botwe attacked by armed robbers
The Batsonaa Divisional Police Command has arrested two security men on suspicion of complicity in a robbery on the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Okere Constituency, Mr Dan Botwe, yesterday.
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One of the two men is a personal security guard at Mr Botwe’s residence at Community 20, near the Accra Abattoir, while the other is a security guard in an adjourning house in the vicinity.
They are being held on suspicion that they might have facilitated the robbers’ entry into the MP’s residence.
The Batsonaa Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Baba Adamu, told the Daily Graphic that the two were picked up following inconsistencies in the accounts they gave in connection with the crime.
Shook
The MP, who was reportedly asleep, was rudely awakened by the three masked men who held him and his wife hostage for close to 45 minutes and ransacked his room, around 1 a.m. yesterday.
They made away with items such as wedding rings, jewellery, mobile phones, laptops and an undisclosed amount of money. The value of the items, according to Chief Adamu, was unknown.
Mr Botwe’s Personal Assistant, Mr Danso Attafuah, told the Daily Graphic that the MP, who had returned from the Eastern Region after a voter registration monitoring exercise, was scheduled to travel to the Ashanti Region yesterday for similar activities.
“He surrendered and gave the robbers everything they asked for, so they did not harm him or any member of his family,” Mr Danso said.
Mr Botwe, who was shaken by the event, could not grant interviews when the Daily Graphic visited the scene around 2 p.m. yesterday.
“It was a near-death experience and I was praying and consoling my wife as one of the armed men held a gun to our head in our bedroom," Mr Botwe was reported to have said when the police visited the crime scene.
Investigations
Chief Adamu, on the other hand, said the security man in Mr Botwe’s residence who was reported to have escorted the robbers to the main gate after they had succeeded in breaking into the residence through a sliding window, told the police he did so on compulsion after the robbers pointed a gun at his head and threatened to shoot him.
He said a crime scene team which visited the house picked up some fingerprints for analysis and added that a manhunt for the robbers was underway so the police would ensure they were arrested and brought to book.
Speaker of Parliament
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Dan Abodakpi, and scores of sympathisers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) visited Mr Botwe’s residence to commiserate with him.