The Police have arrested four persons who attacked a fuel filling station and murdered a security guard in the early hours of Saturday, 28th January 2023 at Wassa Agona in the Western Region.
The suspects are Francis Ebuka, Wisdom Justway, Samuel Chibuzor and Kinglsy Okechuku alias Kofi Kingsly.
According to a statement by the police, in the course of the robbery, the four, subjected the fuel attendants to severe beatings and made away with an unspecified amount of money together with the filling station’s CCTV Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and mobile phones belonging to the victims.
Police say upon receiving information concerning the robbery attack, the patrol teams within the catchment area were mobilized and proceeded to the scene of the operation where they arrested suspect Francis Ebuka, Wisdom Justway and Samuel Chibuzor who were fleeing the robbery scene on a motorbike.
Retrieved items
The police retrieved a black hood, a handbag containing two mobile phones and an amount of Twenty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty-Two Cedis (GH₵ 20,722.00) during a search conducted on them.
The Police team further pursued the fourth suspect, Kingsly Okechuku to a hotel near Bogoso where an amount of Forty-Four Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty-Two Cedis (GH₵ 44,852.00), suspected to be part of their booty, was retrieved from him.
“Other items recovered from the suspects include the DVR components of the CCTV setup stolen by the suspects together with two pinch bars and a Ghana Card belonging to one of the victims”.
All four suspects are currently in Police custody and will be put before the court to face justice.
