K'si murder suspect arrested near Afienya

Front Page: Daily Graphic, August 19, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
A 34-year-old man believed to have led five armed robbers to assassinate Detective Chief Inspector Jacob Nyame in Kumasi on April 13, 2009, has been arrested by the police.
Suspect Kwabena Takyi, who has been on the police wanted list, was arrested on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at a lorry station at Kakasunanka Number One around Afienya in the Greater Accra Region while awaiting his accomplices to allegedly attack a former member of the senior national team, the Black Stars.
Two foreign-made pistols, one of which was fully loaded, were retrieved from him at the time of his arrest. A rastafarian wig which is usually used by Takyi while on “duty” was also retrieved.
The police have confirmed that a bench warrant had earlier been issued by the Osu Magistrate’s Court for his alleged involvement in a number of high-profile 4x4 car snatching cases.
Briefing newsmen in Accra yesterday, the Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Christian Yohuno, said the police had information that Takyi and a group of people were travelling to Afienya to snatch a 4x4 vehicle belonging to a former player of the senior national football team, the Black Stars.
Based on that information two patrol teams were despatched to Kakasunanka Number One near Afienya to lay ambush and at about 8p.m, Takyi and another person arrived at the lorry station.
According to ACP Yohuno, upon realising that the two were trying to get a vehicle to move to their intended target, the policemen arrested Takyi while the other person escaped.
ACP Yohuno said a search on Takyi showed that he had two foreign-made pistols, one of which was fully loaded.
ACP Yohuno said following the arrest of Takyi last Saturday, the Accra Regional Police Command had received information from the CID headquarters in Accra and the Ashanti Regional Police CID indicating that Takyi was wanted in connection with a number of car-snatching robberies and the murder of Detective Chief Inspector Jacob Nyame on April 13, this year.
Five suspected armed robbers allegedly shot to death Chief Inspector Nyame in his home at Medoma, a developing community in the Kwabre East District in the Ashanti Region.
The deceased was shot twice in the waist and the rib by the gunmen in an execution style, with the cop bleeding to death.
ACP Yohuno recalled that Takyi’s name was mentioned by one Peter Kwaku Aziagborlu after he was arrested when the gang was planning to attack a house at Kakasunanka on the Tema-Afienya road on August 7, 2009.
In the said operation, the police planted personnel in the house but the gang did not show up.
ACP Yohuno said the police, however, had information that the gang was planning to attack another house at East Legon on Saturday, August 9, 2009 to steal a 4x4 Infinity vehicle.
Other members of Peter’s gang, he said, were identified only as Takyi, Kobby alias Ajaguer, a barber at Ashaiman; Sefadzi, Jackie and Kofi.
It was during the plan to raid the house at East Legon on August 9, 2009 that Peter was arrested, he added.
ACP Yohuno said the police were taking the fight against armed robberies to the criminals by making sure that the police were able to strike ahead of the armed robbers.
He, therefore, appealed to members of the public to continue to volunteer information to the police, since the police thrived on information to succeed.