Tema (Greater Accra) 29 July ?99

Three armed robbers were arrested on Monday afternoon by residents of Sakumono Estates, near Tema, in the act of robbing a resident.

The fourth person, the alleged leader of the group who was armed with a gun and knife, managed to escape arrest. Kwame Antwi, Kwame Boakye and Kwasi Sekyere, were however not lucky.

They have been placed in Police custody pending investigations.

Mr Frederick Sosi, an occupant of the house, told newsmen at the Sakumono Police Station that at about 1.45 p.m. on Monday, while doing his house chores, he saw the four people jump over his wall into the house.

He raised the alarm and some workers working near-by came to the rescue and managed to arrest the three whiles.

Mr Sosi said this is the second in three weeks that robbers have been to the house.

There was no one in the house when the occurred.

When contacted, Mr Joe Dankwa, Tema Regional Police Commander, confirmed the story, and said a 15-year-old boy who alleged that he had been recruited for the first time for the robbery from Agbogbloshie market in Accra, has co-operated with the police in their investigations.

In a related development, Tema police have mounted a search for the arrest of about six armed robbers who attacked two Total Filling stations at Lashibi on the Accra-Ashaiman road. They made away with three million cedis on July 23 at 1.30 a.m. in the first raid.

On the second occasion on the night of July 26, they took away six million cedis from the filling station on the Tema-Aflao road, near Mac Baron Hotel.