Chainsaw operators arrested

Suhum, July 8, GNA - Eight chainsaw operators including a woman have been arrested by the Suhum police in connection with assault and attempting to murder a timber merchant, Mr Owusu Dome, two months ago. The arrest followed an appeal the victim made to the Inspector General of Police for his intervention to ensure that the culprits are brought to book after several attempts by the police to arrest the suspects failed. The Suhum District Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police Anane Appiah, said the suspects were identified and arrested when they confessed their crime to the chief of Brong-Densuso Number One, a farming community in the Suhum area, who handed them over to the police. The suspects are Sammy Macho, Yaw Mann, Yekini, Tettey, Cobbina, Kofi Adjei, Yaw Dunyo and Sandra.

Two other persons, Ebenezer and the driver of the vehicle that was used to assault the victim, are at large even tough the vehicle had been impounded by the police. On May 19th 2010 the Mr Owusu Dome had closed from work and was moving from Akwadum to Suhum in a public vehicle when the suspects followed the vehicle and raised a false alarm that he, the victim, was a thief. Mr Dome was handed over to the suspects by the driver of the vehicle he was travelling in on the grounds that he was a wanted thief. The suspects put him in their vehicle and assaulted him from Akwadum to Nankese. They tied a rope around his neck and told him that they were going to kill him for frustrating their chainsaw operations. Lack eluded the suspects when shouts of the victim led to his rescue by some people at Nankese. The suspects threw him out of the vehicle and escaped. The victim sustained injuries and was taken to the Suhum Government Hospital.