The Police Intelligence Department (PID) on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 thwarted a plot by a gang of armed men to rob an expatriate businessman at Cantonment, a first class residential area in Accra. At least, two of the elements were gunned down during a gun battle with the police.
Information available to The Chronicle has it that on that fateful Tuesday, acting upon a tip-off that the gang members were planning the onslaught, the PID conducted surveillance on the suspects, who were lodged at a hotel at Labadi, a suburb of Accra.
The suspects, who reportedly travelled from Bimbilla in the Northern Region down south, to primarily embark on the mission to rob the said expatriate at about 20:00hours, mounted a get-away Toyota Yaris salon car and headed to their target area.
The police, based on their intelligence, trailed the gang to a point towards their objective.
However, the armed group, after noticing the surveillance opened rapid fire suspected to have emerged from an AK47 assault rifle, targeted the monitoring team, resulting in one Sergeant Samuel Acocha being struck in the left thigh and right armpit.
At this stage, it became apparent that the group was more sophisticated and deadly than envisaged, so a posture had to be adopted.
Police subsequently returned multiple fires and for minutes engaged the criminal elements in fierce gun battle.
When the dust settled, two of the miscreants fell, while three others, including their talisman bearer, managed to escape with their AK47 assault rifle and pistols they might have possessed illegally.
A search conducted on the two armed men led to the retrieval of two loaded pump action guns, quantity of live ammunition of various types, three iPhones, talismans for fortifications and four finger rings believed to contain their spiritual protection.
Wounded Sergeant Acocha and the two gun men were rushed to the Police Hospital, but the latter were medically declared dead upon arrival at the hospital.
The Policeman is presently responding to treatment as the bodies of the two gang members have been deposited at the mortuary, pending autopsy.
A highly placed source at the Police Headquarters, who pleaded anonymity, was full of praise for the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, and the Director General of PID, Mr Baba Atianik for the continuous motivation of the men.
That, with such morale booster at the peak, the personnel would always be swift in acting and coupled with bravery they are ready to prevent potentially deadly attacks.
The IGP, according to adeep throat source, has not relented on the declaration of war against criminal elements who, he says, better find jobs to do, for he would render their adopted profession unattractive.
In a related development, Inusa Musah reports from Ashaiman that the Kpone District Police Command, under the Tema Regional Police Command, has shot and killed three suspected armed robbers who attempted to burgle a warehouse at the Kpone Industrial Area.
Acting on a distress call of the attempted burglary by ten armed men on late Monday afternoon, equally armed police team from Kpone in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality, arrived at the location, where both teams reportedly exchanged fire.
Three of the ten armed robbers were killed while a couple who sustained gunshot wounds managed to escape.
Some exhibits the police retrieved from the robbers included – Bruni mod foreign pistol, double-barrelled locally manufactured pistol with two rounds of ammunition and 11 live BB ammunition from the robbers.
The bodies of the three have been deposited at the Police Hospital Morgue for identification, preservation and autopsy while investigations are ongoing to arrest the remaining suspects.
