IGP petitioned to investigate 441 missing exhibit motorbikes in police custody

The Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu has been petitioned by a resident of Techiman in The Brong Ahafo region to investigate the circumstances surrounding disappearance 441 exhibit motorbikes under the custody of the Techiman Divisional Police Command.

Kwadwo Agyei is demanding that a thorough investigations be conducted into the how the over 144 brand new motorbikes mysteriously disappeared into thin air when the police are supposed to keep watch over them pending an outcome of a case.

It is alleged one Sergeant S.K. Wotordzor Saviour formerly with Wenchi Division as Divisional Crime Officer allegedly supervised the sale of Four Hundred and Forty-one (441) motorbikes left in his custody as exhibits and squandered the proceeds.

The Wenchi Division had taken custody of the 441 motorbikes when one Meto Emile, the General Manager of STE Evame Srl Motors, a Togo-based company with branches in Ghana had complained to the Wenchi Divisional Command over discrepancies in the records of its agent Jacob Adongo.

At the end of the audit conducted by Sergeant S.K. Wotordzor in the presence of Jacob Adongo, the accused’s agent; Jeff Agbeko the company’s accountant and Kwadwo Agyei, the man with Power of Attorney, had certified that in all 441 motorbikes were identified and same locked under key and the keys left under the care of Techiman Division for further investigations.

But Sergeant S.K Wotordzor is alleged to have superintended over the sale of the motorbikes under the Division’s custody without the consent of Kwadwo Adjei the one who is clothed with power of attorney to pursue the case on behalf of (Meto Emile) the complainant, and contrary to the advice by the Attorney General’s Office.

A Senior State Attorney at the Attorney General’s Office in Brong-Ahafo Region in a letter dated 28 October, 2015 advised the Wenchi Division to Charge the suspect (Jacob Adongo) with the offense of conspiracy to commit crime which is fraudulent breach of trust contrary to section 128 of the criminal offences Act 1960, Act 29 and forward copies of same to this office to enable prosecution; the advice was signed by Theophilus Appoh, Senior State Attorney and copied the Deputy Commissioner of Police Sunyani .

Investigations by mynewsgh.com revealed that the police may have actually sold 420 of the total of 441 motorbikes leaving twenty-one (21) bikes and spare parts with the Techiman Division, but has since refused to release the 21 bikes to the holder of Power of Attorney, Kwadwo Agyei.

Not a written request by Kwadwo Agyei would let the police release the remaining bikes which have been in their custody since 2015.

A further check by this paper at the Attorney General’ Office in Accra shows that there was never a case such as this brought to its attention.

K Wotordzor in a telephone conversation with mynesgh.com denied the sale of the bikes. He said the case was reassigned. However, mynewsgh.com can report authoritatively that the facts of the case presented to the Attorney General’s Office in Brong-Ahafo strongly indicate that the 441 bikes may have been sold under the supervision of Wotordzor.