Armed robber shoots accomplice, bolts with booty Source: Daily Graphic newspaper Date: 01-02-2018 Time: 07:02:32:am
Tahiru Sulemana's dream or sharing the booty from a robbery with his partner in crime, Kofi Adu, alias Anointing, turned gruesome when Adu allegedly turned his gun on his accomplice and escaped with the spoils of their crime.
With GHȻ2,910 and ten expensive mobile phones to split between them, Adu was not excited about the prospect of sharing the snatched items and allegedly shot 26-year-old Sulemana.
Sulemana survived the attack but sustained multiple wounds from the gunshot.
Briefing the Daily Graphic in Oda on Wednesday, the Oda Municipal Police Commander, Superintendent of Police Mr Samuel Ntosoh, said around 11 p.m. last Sunday, a United States-based Oda citizen, Mr Emmanuel Boateng, and his girlfriend were returning to his house behind the Oda Community Nurses Training School alter buying food from town.
He said after opening the gate and parking his private car, Mr Boateng became worried that his girlfriend who had got down from the vehicle to open the gate to the house had kept long in entering the house and so he went out to see what had happened to her.
Mr Ntosoh said to Mr Boateng's surprise, the woman had been taken hostage at gunpoint by men suspected to be armed robbers.
He said the two robbers took all the money Mr Boateng and the girlfriend had on them.
According to him, the robbers also marched the two to Mr Boateng's bedroom, where they seized GHȻ2,000, in addition to six expensive mobile phones.
Mr Ntosoh stated that while robbing Mr Boateng and his girlfriend, the robbers spotted a young man by name Charles Ampomah who had closed from his shop and was going home.
The two did not spare Ampomah but attacked him and took his mobile phone and a bunch of keys.
Hostage
From there, a lady by name Ms Grace Domena, who was on her way to meet her visitor, was also taken hostage by the robbers, who suspected that she might have witnessed the robbery and, therefore, kidnapped her at gunpoint.
They allegedly took her to the compound of the Oda Ridge Experimental School where they shared their booty in her presence.
Gunshots
Mr Ntosoh said after sharing the booty, Adu fired a gunshot at close range, injuring Sulemana in the forehead and Ms Domena in the knee.
He said as Sulemana fled for his dear life, Adu chased him and fired at him again.
For fear of being killed by his partner, Sulemana fled, leaving his share of the booty behind, which was taken by Adu, who also ran out.
The Municipal Police Commander said Ms Demena's screams for help attracted some Good Samaritans who rushed her to the Oda Government Hospital for treatment.
Caught
He said Ms Domena met Sulemana at the hospital being attended to by medical personnel and she raised the alarm that he was one of the armed robbers who had taken her hostage and shot her in the knee.
Mr Ntosoh stated that a report was made to the police patrol team, which immediately arrested Sulemana and sent him to the Oda District Police Headquarters.
Police have mounted a search for Adu.
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GITMO 2 refugee status: US Embassy was informed – Minority claims On January 30, 2018 By raskorsa
The Minority in Parliament has expressed shock over claims by the US Ambassador Robert Jackson that the John Mahama government took a unilateral decision to grant refugee status to two terror suspects currently being held in Ghana.
Bawku Central Member of Parliament Mahama Ayariga insists the US Embassy was part of the decision every step of the way and wondered why the Ambassador will claim ignorance.
In what is perhaps the first full disclosure, more than two years after the GITMO 2 scandal broke in January 2016, Ayariga said the government he was part of in 2016, decided to grant the two suspects refugee status so they could acquire a form of ID card fr the suspects.
Having been flown into the country under controversial circumstances, the MP said the Yemenis, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammed Salih Al-Dhuby, had no identification cards, passports which will enable them access the National Health Insurance and other essential services in the country.
He said the refugee status granted the two suspects came with a form of ID which enabled the two to settle in peacefully.
“The matter was discussed with the US embassy; the case officer for the US Embassy was Tim Miller and he was briefed by the case officer representing Ghana’s National Security,” he stated.
He found it rather surprising claims by the US Ambassador that the refugee status conferred on the two was done unilaterally.
Backgroundname
The two came into Ghana in January 2016 following an agreement reached with the Obama Administration to close down the Guantanamo Bay which was housing a number of terror suspects at the time.
The two Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammed Salih Al-Dhuby, had been kept in the bay for close to 14 years after they were arrested in Afghanistan in 2001.
According to the John Mahama administration, the two did not pose any major security challenge to Ghana and granted them a new home at least for two years.
They were admitted into the country albeit huge protest, controversy and lawsuits.
Cash involved
Even though there were speculations Ghana received some cash for the upkeep of the two suspects no specific figure was mentioned at the time the John Mahama administration was signing the agreement with the US.
However, Mahama Ayariga told Joy News’ Evans Mensah a total amount of $300,000 was paid to Ghana for the upkeep of the two for two years after which the government can take a decision on what to do with them.
He said the amount was converted into cedis, with the government accruing a little over one million cedis.
According to Ayariga, the NDC government spent a little over 571,000 cedis on the upkeep of the suspects and leftover 595,000 in the coffers of the national security when it lost power in the 2016 elections.
He challenged the government to disclose how much it is left of the amount and what it has been used for.
Refugee Status
The Bawku Central MP also stated emphatically that the refugee status granted the two suspects is due to expire in July this year.
He wanted to know what the government plans to do when the period elapses.
Government spokespersons had insisted the refugee status granted the two tied their hands and left them with little or no choice but to allow the two to stay.
Apology
Ayariga insisted the NDC has been consistent on the matter of the GITMO 2 scandal. He said in keeping with Ghana’s credentials as a country that believes in freedom and the rights of human being, the John Mahama government was right in opening the country’s doors to the two suspects.
A deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Owiredu has however challenged the claims by Ayariga that key stakeholders were consulted in the decision to grant refugee status to the two.
He said they had perused all documents and at no point was the issue of refugee status raised.
When he was asked whether he knew about the account, the amount remaining and the expiration date for the refugee status of the two suspects, the Deputy Minister said he did not have that information but promised to cross-check and provide same later.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
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