Suspected robber not dead
Gilbert Boyefio
21/04/2007
Investigations by The Saturday Statesman have indicated that a suspected robber, who was attacked by a mob outside the newspaper offices on Thursday and saved by newspaper staff, is not dead as reported by Citi FM Thursday afternoon.
Rather, Muhammed Issah Yussif, 29, has been released from the Police Hospital at Cantonment, Accra with injuries which are "not life threatening? according to hospital staff.He is now in Police custody at Tema.
The incident, which took place at around 1pm on Thursday outside the Statesman offices in Kokomlemle, was the result of a police chase on a gang of suspected robbers who had come from Tema.
Forced to dismount their motorbikes between Unibank and the SG-SSB headquarters, two of the three were immediately arrested, whilst Yussif attempted to escape, scaling three walls before he was caught by a crowd of local people and severely beaten with blocks, iron bars and stones.
The attack went on for several minutes before Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, Editor-in-Chief of The Statesman, intervened and called the Police.CID officers had taken around 30 minutes to arrive, when they handcuffed the suspected criminal and took him to the Police Hospital.
Speaking yesterday to this newspaper, the Station Officer at the CID Charge Office, Police Headquarters, Owusu Sekyere, said he had ordered that Yussif be taken to the hospital. He said he had closed from work when Yussif was brought back from the Police Hospital to the cell.
A source at the Police Hospital confirmed the story, revealing that the robbery suspect's injuries were not life threatening and that he was therefore discharged and returned to the Police after receiving medical attention from the hospital.
Other Police Hospital Staff had refused to give details of the whereabouts and condition of the robbery suspect, however. They claimed they could not comment on the issue without permission from the ?authorities.?
However, they admitted that the suspect was brought to the hospital alive. Meanwhile, Inspector Sekyere says the case is now with the Tema Police. Yussif and five others are wanted in Tema for a crime they had committed there, he said, quickly adding that the Accra Police is not in a position to comment on it since it was not their investigation.
Inspector Sekyere said he learnt that two more people had been apprehended Thursday by the Tema Police at Paloma Hotel on Ring Road Central, Accra and consequently he handed over Yussif to them yesterday.Speaking to The Saturday Statesman, the Tema Regional Police Crime Commander, Chief Superintendent Dugbeda, confirmed that the robbers were being pursued from Tema.
He disclosed that they were involved in a wild robbery incident that occurred at Tema Wednesday before the three of them were successfully apprehended in Accra Thursday. He said the robbers, numbering six, had stolen huge sums of money from Tema and had come down to Accra to share their booty, when luck run out for them.
Although the Police Commander refused to give the total sum of money stolen by the robbers or the location where the robbery occurred, citing security reasons, Yussif confirmed this story when he told a Statesman reporter that he had come to Paloma to take his ?1.5m share of the booty from the day before.
The Police Commander disclosed that Yussif and the other two suspected robbers are in Police custody and would help in the investigation to enable the Police to arrest the other three people, who managed to escape.He said investigations were ongoing to arrest the three on the run.
Yesterday The Statesman reported two separate incidents of instant justice in Kokomlemle, with one occurring outside the offices of The Statesman necessitating the intervention of its staff, whose timely intervention saved him.
Before the intervention of The Statesman, no attempts were made to stop the beatings, or to call either the Police or medical help.
21/04/2007
Investigations by The Saturday Statesman have indicated that a suspected robber, who was attacked by a mob outside the newspaper offices on Thursday and saved by newspaper staff, is not dead as reported by Citi FM Thursday afternoon.
Rather, Muhammed Issah Yussif, 29, has been released from the Police Hospital at Cantonment, Accra with injuries which are "not life threatening? according to hospital staff.He is now in Police custody at Tema.
The incident, which took place at around 1pm on Thursday outside the Statesman offices in Kokomlemle, was the result of a police chase on a gang of suspected robbers who had come from Tema.
Forced to dismount their motorbikes between Unibank and the SG-SSB headquarters, two of the three were immediately arrested, whilst Yussif attempted to escape, scaling three walls before he was caught by a crowd of local people and severely beaten with blocks, iron bars and stones.
The attack went on for several minutes before Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, Editor-in-Chief of The Statesman, intervened and called the Police.CID officers had taken around 30 minutes to arrive, when they handcuffed the suspected criminal and took him to the Police Hospital.
Speaking yesterday to this newspaper, the Station Officer at the CID Charge Office, Police Headquarters, Owusu Sekyere, said he had ordered that Yussif be taken to the hospital. He said he had closed from work when Yussif was brought back from the Police Hospital to the cell.
A source at the Police Hospital confirmed the story, revealing that the robbery suspect's injuries were not life threatening and that he was therefore discharged and returned to the Police after receiving medical attention from the hospital.
Other Police Hospital Staff had refused to give details of the whereabouts and condition of the robbery suspect, however. They claimed they could not comment on the issue without permission from the ?authorities.?
However, they admitted that the suspect was brought to the hospital alive. Meanwhile, Inspector Sekyere says the case is now with the Tema Police. Yussif and five others are wanted in Tema for a crime they had committed there, he said, quickly adding that the Accra Police is not in a position to comment on it since it was not their investigation.
Inspector Sekyere said he learnt that two more people had been apprehended Thursday by the Tema Police at Paloma Hotel on Ring Road Central, Accra and consequently he handed over Yussif to them yesterday.Speaking to The Saturday Statesman, the Tema Regional Police Crime Commander, Chief Superintendent Dugbeda, confirmed that the robbers were being pursued from Tema.
He disclosed that they were involved in a wild robbery incident that occurred at Tema Wednesday before the three of them were successfully apprehended in Accra Thursday. He said the robbers, numbering six, had stolen huge sums of money from Tema and had come down to Accra to share their booty, when luck run out for them.
Although the Police Commander refused to give the total sum of money stolen by the robbers or the location where the robbery occurred, citing security reasons, Yussif confirmed this story when he told a Statesman reporter that he had come to Paloma to take his ?1.5m share of the booty from the day before.
The Police Commander disclosed that Yussif and the other two suspected robbers are in Police custody and would help in the investigation to enable the Police to arrest the other three people, who managed to escape.He said investigations were ongoing to arrest the three on the run.
Yesterday The Statesman reported two separate incidents of instant justice in Kokomlemle, with one occurring outside the offices of The Statesman necessitating the intervention of its staff, whose timely intervention saved him.
Before the intervention of The Statesman, no attempts were made to stop the beatings, or to call either the Police or medical help.
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