By William Yaw Owusu
Wednesday march 24, 2010
A 30 year-old man who allegedly snatched a taxi cab with registration ER 1271 Y from its occupant at Agona Swedru in the Central Region at knife point then brought it to Accra to be sent to Tamale for sale is in the grips of the Nima Police.
The suspect, Jeff Arhin had brought the navy blue and yellow KIA Pride to two brothers, Salifu Adams, 37, a scrap dealer and Tijani Adams, 25, a labourer both at the Konkomba Market in Accra to be sent to Tamale for a customer but the car ended up in the fitting shop of Bright Ankomah, a 31 year-old auto sprayer where it was dismantled.
The four have been cooling off in police cells and are to be processed before a law court today.
Speaking to DAILY GUIDE in Accra Monday, the Nima Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Timothy Yoosa Bonga said the police had intelligence reports on Sunday at about 4 pm that some people were dismantling a cab whose number plate had been removed.
“We quickly dispatched our intelligence team and when they arrived at a place called Spot ‘M’ at Ofankor in Accra, Salifu, Tijani and Ankomah were busily dismantling the cab while Hajara Adams, 28, looked on.”
The police commander said the suspects had dismantled the vital and adjoining parts of the cab and were about to remove the engine when the intelligence team swoop on them.
He said the engine had been fitted with a belt ready to be lifted from the main body of the cab adding “we then picked them up and towed the skeletal vehicle and its parts to our office.”
He said investigations later established that Arhin had snatched the cab from one Rockson Adu-Twum at knife point in Swedru on March 17 around 4:50am then driven it straight to Salifu and Tijani at the Konkomba Market in Accra.
“Arhin, Salifu and Tijani then conspired to send the cab to Tamale to sell it,” he said.
Chief Supt. Bonga said the three set off to Tamale but the cab developed a mechanical fault at Ofankor so they had to send it to Ankomah’s shop to be dismantled saying, “Ankomah consented and assisted with some tools such a pliers.”
The police commander said by the time police arrived Arhin had returned to Agona Swedru but they were able to lure him to Accra to be arrested.
“Our investigators told him that someone was ready to buy the cab so he rushed from Swedru to Accra at 5:00 am this morning for the money.”
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