Four robbers arrested after gun battle

Four armed robbers, three of them Nigerians and one Ghanaian, were at dawn on Sunday arrested after a fierce gun-battle with a police-cum-military patrol team at Dawhenya, near Tema. They were arrested after they succeeded in robbing Laciokor and Koch Farms both at Dawhenya in the Greater Accra region.

They are Wilson Dickson, 20, Michael Charles, 30, and Tunde Akin, 23, the Nigerian and Kennedy Salley, 29, the Ghanaian. The fifth, Charles George, a Ghanaian named as the leader, managed to escape with two-pump action guns which they took from the security men at Laciokor Farms. He is also believed to have taken away over ?1.5 million cash.

Disclosing these to the “Times” at Tema Regional Police Commander, said the robbers first attacked the Laciokor Farms around 1 am, and collected ?280,000 from two workers at gun-point. They forced the main door open and made away with ?1.5 million.

At Korch Farms, the robbers forced the security-man there at gunpoint to help them chisel the safe. They were at it when the patrol team arrived at about 3 am. On seeing the lights of the two military Land Rovers, they fled into the bush. Some youth of Dawhenya who rushed to the spot assisted the patrol team to pursue the robbers until four of them were arrested. But this was not without exchange of fire.

Two locally made pistols, two heavy clubs and some cartridges were retrieved from them. Also found on them were some shirts in a bag. Their statements were being taken at the time the ‘Times’ was leaving the police station.