Isaac KenYeboah, Director-General, Criminal Investigations Department (CID), has said that, the law will prosecute officers who indulge in criminal activities
In a press conference to address the arrest of General Lance Corporal Bright Akosah, who allegedly shot and killed a taxi driver at Adjin Kotoku after robbing him of his vehicle, Mr Yeboah made known that, no officer who commits a criminal act would be spared.
Lance Corporal Akosah, a Police officer with the SWAT Unit at the Regional Police Headquarters in Accra, is said to have shot 40 year old Samuel Tawiah, a driver, three times with his service pistol.
Akosah was nabbed together with two other accomplices namely Ebenezer Tetteh and Francis Aidoo.
COP Yeboah said on September 12, Akosah went to Pokuase Junction and hired the services of Samuel Tawiah who was then in charge of a Nissan Versa Taxi with registration; GW 6818-20 to send him to his (Akosah’s) site at Adjin Kotoku and the deceased obliged.
The CID Boss said on their way, Tetteh was hiding in a nearby bush so on reaching there, Akosah asked Tawiah to stop.
He continued that, Tetteh then emerged from the bush and joined them in the taxi.
Akosah shot Tawiah two times and Tetteh pulled him out of the taxi and they dumped him in the bush. Akosah also shot Tawiah for the third to make sure that Tawiah was dead. The suspect left the deceased in the bush and drove away his car.
According to COP Yeboah, Akosah and Tetteh went to Cape Coast with the deceased’s taxi to look for a prospective buyer after agreeing to sell the taxi for of GHS8, 000.00.
Akosah, and his two accomplices, Tetteh and Aidoo have since been put before court and they have been remanded into Police custody.
Still on crime, The Nkawie Circuit court has remanded two persons into prison custody for unlawful entry and illegal mining activities in the Tano-Offin Forest reserve, in the Atwima Mponua District.
Kwaku Anokye 39, an excavator operator, and Kwabena Abdulai 18, a farmer, pleaded not guilty and would reappear before the court, presided by Mr. Johnson Abbey on October 09, this year.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Sylvanus Dalmeida told the court that the complainant was the Deputy Manager of the Nkawie District Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission.
He said on September 11, this year, the complainant upon a tip-off led a team of forestry officials into the reserve near Kaasotie and met one Dauda, who was carrying two water pumping machines in his tricycle in the forest reserve.
According to the prosecution, Dauda was arrested and handed over to the Nkawie police.
DSP Dalmeida said during interrogation, Dauda mentioned the names of the suspects as those who hired him to transport the machines and led the police to arrest them in a pit inside the forest reserve.
They admitted the offense and after investigations, they were charged and brought before the court.
