The Police have arrested two men, suspected to be part of a gang of armed robbers who attacked the Upper Amenfi Rural Bank at Jukwa near Wassa Akropong.
The suspects, Tahiru Issaka alias Red and Yahuza Mohammed were arrested at different locations in the Ashanti Region on August 25, 2022.
“One other person who was shot during the operation and died later, was identified by the two suspects as Gafar Zyech Abdul alias Stone, the leader of the gang.”
In a statement released yesterday, August 31, the suspects and three other accomplices attacked the bank on June 27, 2022, disarmed the security guard on duty, assaulted two of the bank staff and made away an unspecified amount of money and a pump action gun.
“When the robbers realised, they were being pursued by the police, they set their vehicle ablaze and abandoned it hoping that would foil the police tracking them,” the statement said.
However, the police have so far retrieved four vehicles including one that was set ablaze and abandoned by the robbers, a motorbike, two pistols and a quantity of ammunitions.
The police commended the intelligence officers in the Western, Ashanti and Bono East regions for their collaborative efforts “which led to the breakthrough in the investigations towards solving the case.”
The two suspects are currently in custody and the police of the other accomplices.
