Two robbers arrested for attacking Amanfro residents
Two men believed to have been involved in a recent robbery and the raping of three women at Ngleshie Amanfro, near Kasoa, have been arrested.
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The suspects, alleged to be members of a gang of robbers, were identified by the police as Isaac Kene, 25, a Togolese, and David Ahortor, 25, a watchman.
Apart from leaving their victims with machete and gunshot wounds in the house-to-house robbery expedition in three suburbs of Amanfro on June 29, 2015, the suspects are also said to have raped a woman and her two daughters at gun point in one of the houses.
Distress calls
Briefing journalists on the arrest, the Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mr Christian Yohuno, said on June 29, 2015, the police received distress calls on robbery attacks from residents of Iron City, Top Town and Galilea, all suburbs of Amanfro.
During the attacks, the robbers allegedly fired gun shots indiscriminately and ordered their victims to surrender their valuables and money.
About eight residents of the three communities who were attacked sustained machete and gunshot wounds.
Though the police dispatched personnel to the various locations, Mr Yohuno said, the robbers escaped before the policemen arrived.
Suspects arrested
He said based on intelligence, the police arrested Isaac Kene while he was in the process of offering some of the stolen items, including seven mobile phones and a polaroid digital camera, for sale at the Liberia Camp in Budumburam, near Kasoa.
The second suspect, Ahortor, armed with a single-barrelled gun, 60 rounds of live ammunition, a pistol, four face masks, hand gloves and a ladies’ wig, is said to have been arrested on July 3, 2015.
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The police retrieved from him empty bullet shells, a laptop charger and some dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
Drama
On July 4, 2015, Mr Yohuno said, the suspects were identified by their victims at an identification parade.
Dozens of people besieged the Accra Regional Police Command yesterday to see the suspects who had been paraded during the press briefing.
The moment turned dramatic when the members of the public hurled insults at the suspected robbers, while the suspects shed tears, insisting that they had nothing to do with the robbery and rape.
“It is only God who can help me. I have nothing to do with this,” Ahortor lamented and went ahead to console Kene to also “leave the matter to God”.