Two welders who were attacked and suffered severe cutlass wounds, beaten and tied by three unidentified armed robbers who broke into Glorious Move Supermarket at Kwashieman Jay Love junction in the Greater Accra Region have rather been arrested by the Odorkor Police as the culprits.
The victims who were attacked before the robbers could break into the supermarket spent four days at the police cells because someone identified the robbers wearing overall shirts like the victims.
The two are Godsway Akpaloo and Jacob Etteh, both workers of Markzonu Auto Body Works and Engineering adjacent the Glorious Move Supermarket.
According to the manager of the supermarket, Isaac Asare, a man by name Okoe told him the following morning that it was the mechanics around the area that broke into the shop and stole GH¢8,500.00 cash, a year’s sales of phone cards and an unspecified amount of money in coins.
Mr. Asare said the robbery incident that took place last week was the fourth in the last four years.
However, in a fifteen minutes fifty-eight seconds audio tape conversation in Twi, a copy available to the paper between the said Okoe and a second person, it was revealed that someone allegedly gave him GH¢50.00 to lie that it was the boys who broke into the supermarket.
According to the two, on Thursday October 8, at around 12:30am they saw three people dressed in overall shirts like mechanics holding torch light.
They said, the three upon seeing them inflicted cutlass wounds and tied them down before they could carry on their operation.
Master Etteh said when they attacked him, they stole his GH¢150.00 before using the cutlass to hit his forehead which made him unconscious and “I woke up around 5:30 am when they were gone.”
The owner of Markzonu Auto and Body Works Engineering, Robert Mensah said when he had a call that such incident had happened, “I rushed quickly to the shop to find out what had happened. At the shop, I saw the blood stains on the ground and I quickly asked Godsway Akpalu who was severely injured to go to the hospital, while I go to the police station to make a case.”
“On my way to the police station, I saw Mr. Asare, the supermarket owner and complained to him about the incident and the need to lodge a complaint at the police station, but I was told an officer of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Odorkor Police is on his way to investigate so I stopped,” he stated.
Mr. Mensah was, however, shocked when his boys who were invited by the Odorkor police for medical form to attend hospital were rather arrested and detained for four days before granting them bail of GH¢250.00.
When the DAILY HERITAGE visited the Odorkor Divisional Police Headquarters (CID) to ascertain the facts of the case, the reporter was told the case had been transferred to the regional headquarters for further investigations.
At the police regional headquarters, the officer in charge denied having received such a case from the Odorkor police and asked the reporter to check from the Odorkor station again.
When the CID officer in-charge of the case, Albert Agbevor, was contacted to react to the issues he declined comments.
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