Police arrest 3 armed robbers

Page 21: Daily Graphic, July 4, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
ANOTHER swift response by the police on Friday afternoon led to the arrest of three suspected armed robbers who attacked Atala Limited, dealers in building materials, at Christian Village, near Achimota.
The robbers were pursued to the vicinity of the Dome Railway Lines where they were arrested by the police.
The suspects, Dawuda Salifu, 18, Joseph Mensah, 34, and Michael Aryeetey, 23, are currently in custody at the Police Headquarters.
The two motorbikes the robbers used for the robbery have been impounded.
A pistol and some ammunition were also retrieved from them.
It is also suspected that the occupants of a vehicle that accompanied them in the operation might have taken the money the robbers snatched from a cashier and the one in a trunk in the bullion vehicle.
The Director of Operations, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Richmond Boi-Bi-Boi told the Daily Graphic that the police received the distress call in connection with the robbery at about 2:30p.m.
He said the attention of the patrol teams within the area was drawn to the incident and “they pursued them from different angles” resulting in the arrest.
He said on realising that the police were closing in on them, the armed robbers abandoned their motorbikes and took to their heels.
ACP Boi-Bi-Boi said the police, however, arrested them after a hot chase.
He explained that officials of The Trust Bank had gone to the company to collect sales for the period when the incident happened.
According to him, the robbers hit a cashier of the bank who was then holding a bag containing the money she had collected from the Atala Limited.
ACP Boi-Bi-Boi said the robbers again went to the waiting bullion which had been opened to collect the sales of Atala to be placed in it.
He said the money that the officials had earlier collected from their clients in the bullion and kept in a small trunk was also whisked away.
He said the police was, however, not informed about the vehicle hence their attention was on the robbers on the two motorbikes.