Aminu Sulley, the suspect
The Peki police have arrested a 25-year-old Fulani man who is alleged to have butchered a motor rider (okada man) after purportedly snatching his motorbike from him.
Aminu Sulley, according to Superintendent Simon Agbodeka, Peki District Police Commander, was arrested upon intelligence.
The motorbike allegedly snatched from the victim has also been recovered.
Narrating how the incident occurred to this paper, he said on March 12, 2018, at about 3:00 pm, some young men brought the victim, (name withheld), to the Juapong Police Station unconscious, with deep cutlass wounds at the back of the head and his left arm almost chopped off, to report that they found him lying in a nearby bush helpless.
“Due to his condition, police quickly rushed him to the nearest hospital for medical attention,” he narrated
According to Supt. Agbodeka, after gaining consciousness, the victim narrated to the police on his hospital bed that he is an okada rider and that on that fateful day, a young man hired his services from Juapong to Volo, a town near Peki, but on reaching a section of the Dorfoe Adidome road, the man asked him to stop for him to urinate.
Superintendent Agbodeka said, the victim continued that after he had stopped, the young man, who was armed with a cutlass, attacked him from behind and inflicted wounds on him after which he pushed him off the motorbike and took it away.
After receiving the information, police intelligence led to the arrest of the suspect in a nearby village at Peki in the Volta Region with the motorbike.
Aminu Sulley is still being detained to assist in investigating the matter; but the victim, the police officer claimed, was still on admission receiving treatment.
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey