Police mounts search for armed robbers

The Nsawam police have mounted a search for four armed robbers who attacked the Director and workers of the Glory Company Limited at Pokrom Nsabaah near Nsawam at gun point at the weekend.

They took away three drums of petrol, 108 gallons of kerosine and a cash of 12 million cedis.

Supt. Otchere Boapea Police Commander in-charge of Nsawam Police told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on Monday that, the armed robbers wrote a letter to the Director of the company, Mr. Kwabena Effah to inform him of their attack.

Supt. Boapea said a police team was dispatched to the area but the robbers did not strike on the day mentioned but after five days of police surveillance, they attacked and bolted away with the items through Aburi.

In another development at the same Police Station, four pick pockets whose names are being withheld by the police are being interrogated for allegedly snatching huge sums of monies from traders, hawkers, passengers and farmers at Nsawam market, the railway station and the main lorry park.

Supt. Otchere Boapea said the police have since destroyed their hide-out at Gyankrom Zongo, Adoagyiri Zongo, Adarkorgyi, and under River Densu bridge, where knives and cutllasses used in their operations were seized by the police. investigations.