Two arrested for conspiracy

Page 54: Daily Graphic, June 25, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
TWO persons, including a driver at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), have been arrested on allegations of conspiracy to commit crime and stealing.
John Kwame Aryeh, the driver at the GIJ, and his friend, Steven Kwaku Nyarko, a tyre dealer, were said to be arrested during the process of removing the new tyres of a vehicle belonging to the GIJ and replacing them with worn-out ones.
The Director of the Organised Crime Unit (OCU) of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Sarfo Agyemang, told the Daily Graphic yesterday that Nyarko visited Aryeh at the GIJ sometime in May this year and informed Aryeh that he (Nyarko) supplied vehicle tyres to a number of government agencies.
He said Nyarko then asked Aryeh to help him get a contract to supply tyres to the GIJ whenever the need arose.
Supt Agyemang said Aryeh then introduced Nyarko to an Assistant Registrar at the institute as a prospective supplier of tyres and batteries to the institute.
He said after a visit to the institute on June 18, 2009, Aryeh requested a witness in the case to agree to a plot to remove the tyres of one of the institute’s buses, with registration number GS 7367 Y and sell them to Nyarko.
He said the witness, after discussing the information with the Assistant Registrar, feigned interest in the deal.
Supt Agyemang said the witness and the accused persons then fixed June 20, 2009 for the execution of the transaction at a filling station at Adabraka.
According to him, the Assistant Registrar then informed the police, who laid ambush at the precincts of the filling station.
He said just as the suspects had brought out the old lorry tyres and were in the process of removing the new tyres on the vehicle, the police arrested them.