Accra, Oct.26 GNA - Three people, who were suspected to have robbed and raped Mzbel, the popular Hip-life musician and his female dancers on Thursday confessed to the Police in Accra to have taken part in that dastardly act.

The suspects are Emmnauel Agozie, 26; Munkiala Tahiru 25 and Kennedy Agbozo, 18.

Briefing the media about the general crime situation in the capital, Assistant Commissioners of Police, Mr Douglas Akrofi Asiedu, Regional Police Commander, said the suspects were arrested last Sunday upon a tip-off by the victims after they were spotted at the La Beach. According Emmanuel Agozie, a suspect who narrated the incident to the media at the Police station, he said it was one Joe, who is on the run that took the three of them at midnight of that day to the house of the musician at New Gbawe.

He said when they got to the place it was Joe who entered the room and spent sometime there and later came out with one of the female dancers, who begged him not to do anything to her. He said they made away with foreign currencies, a laptop and a digital camera.

In another development three persons suspected to have robbed one Ibrahim Kombian, a businessman, raped and defiled his daughters at Pokuase-Amanfrom, were also picked up by the Police.

The suspects were Yusif Mohammed; Abdul Basheed Musah and Kofi Yeboah while the Police have mounted an intensive search for a fourth suspect only known as Daddy, who is on the run.

ACP Akrofi Asiedu said the suspects took away four mobile phones, jewelleries and some assorted drinks from the house of the victim. He said a few days after the incident, Kofi Yeboah; a taxi driver was identified and arrested as one of the suspects, who perpetrated the shameful act.

He said he later led the Police to arrest the two other suspects. Meanwhile, the Police patrol team at Osu, Accra also arrested a gang of suspected mobile phone snatchers.

The suspects are Frank Apau 23; Adu Kwabena, 22 and David Klottey, 18.

The Regional Police Commander said the suspects attacked and attempted to snatch mobile phones from their victims, who were returning from a nightclub last Tuesday at 0100 hours, when the Osu Police patrol team chanced upon them and arrested them.

A search conducted on them revealed a cutlass, a toy gun and an axe.

ACP Akrofi Asiedu gave the assurance that the Police and the Military had jointly devised operational strategies to tackle crime in Accra and its environs.

He expressed the hope that when the strategies become fully operational the robberies would reduce. 26 Oct. 06