The suspects
Four young men, who allegedly hired a taxi cab from Kumasi and ended up snatching the cab, have been grabbed by the Asamankese Police in the Lower West Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The suspects have been identified by the police as Stephen Kofi Gyamfi, 22, believed to be the ringleader; Kofi Richard, 20; Benjamin Kofi Larbi, 24; and Kelvin Asante, 19, and the taxi driver was identified as Enock Atuobi Okane.
They were arrested on Wednesday evening at Wasabiampa near Akroso in the region.
According to the police, the ringleader was the person that hired the Toyota Yaris taxi cab with the registration number AS 1869-20 from a hotel, in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Capital, to Nsawam in the Eastern Region, claiming he was going to inspect his farm.
The Deputy Eastern Regional Police Spokesman, Sgt. Francis Gomado, said the taxi driver, upon reaching Suhum, was ordered by the ringleader to pick the three accomplices.
He said the suspects then directed the driver to take the Asamankese road towards the Akroso direction and branched to a village called Wasabiampa on the Akroso road.
In the process, the suspects asked the driver to stop the car near a bush path but the victim told the suspects he wanted to attend nature’s call and he quickly dashed into the bush.
According to the police when the driver returned, the suspects pounced on him and attacked him with sticks.
The victim then managed to escape with the help of an ‘Okada’ rider, who rushed him to the nearby police checkpoint at Adiembra whereby they traced the suspects and got them arrested at Wasabiampa with the assistance of the locals.
The suspects were later paraded at the Asamankese Police Station together with the Taxi cab and were locked up after writing their statements.
FROM Daniel Bampoe, Asamankese