The suspected armed robbers in police custody and ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Dankwah (below)
Three suspected armed robbers, who attacked the deputy commander of Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIPS), ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo–Dankwa at her residence at Kwabenya, Accra a week ago have been apprehended.
The senior police officer and her family were attacked at gunpoint by the suspects at about 1:30 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2016.
The suspects are Abdulai Rashid aka Game Boy aka Vim, 24, driver, Kwame Kunadu, 21, and Benjamin Aidoo, aka Ice Tee, 39.
Kwame Tawiah, 53-year-old goldsmith, who received the stolen items, has also been arrested by the police.
Mobile phones, laptops, ipads and various cash which were initially stolen by the suspects have all been retrieved, with the exception of the wedding rings of the police officer and her husband.
Attack
According to reports, during the robbery operation, they tied her husband, Ofosu Addo-Dankwa, Â son and nephew with a rope and locked them up in their washroom while one kept guard with a knife and pistol.
The suspects warned the victims to comply with their directives or be killed.
The two other suspects marched ACP Tiwaa into her bedroom and ransacked the place.
They took her laptop, three Ipads and seven mobile phones and cash both in cedis and foreign currencies.
The suspects later ordered the police officer and her husband to remove their wedding rings.
One of the suspects, according to reports, gave her hefty slap after the police said she did not have jewels for him.
Abdulai further assaulted the senior officer and threatened to remove one of her eyes for looking at his face.
The suspects asked her to surrender her pistol but she told them that she did not have one.
They subjected her to severe beatings before leaving the house.
Arrest
The Accra Regional Police Commander, ACP Timothy Yoosa Bonga, who briefed the media on the arrest, said the police worked tirelessly after they received the information about the attack.
Acting on tip-off, the police proceeded to Kwame Nkrumah Circle the following day to arrest one of the suspects who had gone there to sell the booty, but he managed to escape arrest.
On November 3, 2016, Benjamin Aidoo was arrested with the victims’ laptop, ipads and mobile phones.
He led the police to apprehend Abdulai Rashid and Kwame Konadu, his accomplices.
One of the mobile phones, a Samsung mobile phone was retrieved from Konadu.
The three then led the police to the shop of the goldsmith where they usually sell stolen wedding rings after robbery operations.
Upon interrogations, it came to light that the suspects sold the rings to Tawiah at a cost of GH¢580.
Tawiah, at the time of his arrest, according to the police, had already melted the rings and sold it to another customer.
According to the police, the four, who are currently in custody, would be arraigned before court soon.
Meanwhile, when the paper contacted ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Dankwah, she told the paper that she was recovering.
She said the family members have overcome the initial trauma.
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey