Police intelligence-led operations arrested two suspects in connection with robbery and killing of two, including a mobile money vendor last Monday at Walewale, in the North-
East Region.
The suspects, who were nabbed on February 17, 2024 barely five days after committing the act, are Zakaria Yamusa alias Vandam and Fatao Issah. A release from the Police administration, dated February 17, 2024 and signed by the Director, Public Affairs, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Grace Ansah- Akrofi stated that the suspects on robbery spree that day shot and killed the two, including the mobile money vendor.
The suspects, who also caused injuries to seven (7) others during the attack, have
since been in police custody. Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has personally spoken to all the injured persons, except one, who is yet to be reached, as well as the families of the two deceased victims.
The IGP assured them of a thorough police investigation.
Also, the North-East Regional Police Commander has led a team of officers to
visit the injured persons at the hospital to commiserate with the deceased families.
The release continued that the intelligence led operation is still ongoing to get all the
other perpetrators arrested. In a related development, police intelligence is on the heels of those who, at dawn of Thursday, February 15, 2024 stabbed to death a businessman at Ashaiman.
The Tema Regional Police Command in a release named the victim as 47-year old Eric Baidoo, a second hand clothes dealer. According to the police, at dawn of last Thursday, the deceased went to Kufour Station at Ashaiman to board a vehicle to
Accra Central to commence the day’s activities, when he was attacked to surrender his bag, but he resisted and subsequently stabbed the victim several times in the
stomach.
Both Police and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashaiman in separate statements dispelled assertions widely circulated in social media that deceased was a soldier.
The rumours which gained currency led to apprehension of possible military attack again on Ashaiman. It will be recalled that close to a year ago, following the murder of Private Sheriff of the Ghana Armed Forces, platoons of armed soldiers backed by armoured vehicular and helicopter movements stormed Ashaiman and subjected residents to beatings.
