Three persons including the manager of fuel station in Tumu in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region, have been arrested for robbery.

The suspects include Razak Samangnab 31, Rauf Yakubu 21 and Owusu Benjamin, 28.

They were reported to have made away with daily sales of the station after holding workers hostage according to the District Police commander, ASP Abanga.

According to him, police received a complaint on August 25, 2017 at about 6:40am from managers of the station that two men came on a motorbike came to buy fuel and in the process held everyone hostage, marched the fuel attendants into their offices, robbed them and took away their daily sales, mobile phones and locked the attendants inside the office.

He revealed that his men visited the scene of crime and saw that the attendants were still locked inside, however the police called for help at some checkpoints and later got the robbers at Nakong on the Tumu Navrongo highway in a hot chase.

The community had barricaded the road with the support of the police following exchange of calls by the Tumu police.

One of the suspects, Razak Samangnab told the police he was a trader and had gone to Wa to collect monies from his debtors but was exposed by a local resident who disclosed to the police that he saw him throw something into the bush.

A search at the location revealed a locally made pistol.

In the course of investigations, of the suspects confessed the manager called to inform Razak that he was indebted to the fuel station and demanded they come over from Bawku to rob the station in a bid to cover up his indebtedness.

It was established that the Manager indeed played a part in the robbery as he was reported to have booked a hotel room with the name ‘Antwi’ but had his telephone number for the two robbery suspects who robbed the same filling station he heads.