Chief Mohammed Moro, Yusuf Ibrahim and Ali Mukaila
Three more persons have been picked up by the National Intelligence Unit at the Police Headquarters in connection with the daylight robbery at Royal Motors at North Industrial Area in Accra, as well as the killing of a Lebanese at Tema a few weeks ago.
The suspects have been identified as Chief Mohammed Moro, 40, alias Baba Gunta, a scrap dealer, Ali Mukaila, 27, alias Alimuta, a Fulani mechanic and Yusuf Ibrahim, 26, alias Giwa, a Fulani conductor.
This brings to six, the number of suspects arrested in connection with the two robberies, which lead to the death of Ahmed Safiadeen and the shooting of another person.
Confirming the story to DAILY GUIDE, Commissioner of Police COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno, the Director–General in charge of the National Intelligence Unit, said the three suspects are suspected to be members of the gang that robbed Royal Motors and also killed the Lebanese in Tema.
He said upon the arrest of one of their accomplices called Anokwaletse in Kumasi, it came to light that Baba Gunta, Alimuta and Giwa played various roles in both attacks at North Industrial area and Tema.
COP Yohuno averred that two members of the gang, who are Nigerians, are still at large.
“Our intelligence have revealed that suspect Baba Gunta, a close ally of Dogo America , who was arrested earlier for killing a policeman on guard duties at a polytank manufacturing company on the Spintex Road last year, is an ex convict.”
According to reports, the suspect was instrumental in robberies that occurred at Tema and the attacks on some forex bureaux and Tema Toll booth.
Giwa, according the Director General of National Intelligence Unit, is also an ex convict who also took part in the break-in of a warehouse at Tema.
“Suspect Alimuta was involved in the Royal Motors robbery in the industrial area, the killing of the Lebanese national, as well as the attacks on Tema Roundabout Toll Booth and forex bureaux in Tema and Spintex.
The three suspects are currently in police custody assisting in investigations.
It would be recalled that some masked men, on February 26, 2018 around 9am, attacked and robbed workers of Royal Motors, an automobile company in Accra at gunpoint and made away with the previous day’s sales of the company.
The armed men, while escaping, snatched a Toyota Camry saloon car from its owner after shooting the driver.
The victim, who was shot in the shoulder, according to police reports, is receiving treatment at the Korle- Bu Teaching Hospital.
Witnesses say the armed robbers followed a bullion van that had entered the premises of the company to cart some money to the bank.
At the gate, the suspects, according to witnesses, told the security on duty that they were there to make enquiry but upon entering, attacked him and seized his mobile phones.
They then proceeded to the main building after asking the security man for directions at gunpoint.
They then ransacked the accounts office, the manager’s office and the cashier’s office in turns.
“Before the security man could talk, two of the suspects entered the cashier’s office where an amount of GH¢8,000 was taken, destroyed a CCTV device that was installed in the office before they moved to the accounts office and then to the manager’s office where they shot at the door several times to force it open, entered and took additional unspecified amount of money,” an eyewitness told DAILY GUIDE at the crime scene.
According to the witness, the damaged CCTV device was also taken away by the robbers in a blue-black Toyota Corolla saloon car.
In the course of reversing to escape, the robbers crashed into another wine BMW saloon car.
Sensing danger, they got out of the Toyota Corolla and pointed a gun at the driver of the Toyota Camry.
By Linda Tenyah – Ayettey