4 SUSPECTED ARMED ROBBERS NABBED (PAGE 32)

Four suspected armed robbers were on Sunday night arrested by a military highway patrol team for attacking and robbing traders who were on board a 38-seater Benz bus at Yemo-Karaga in the Karaga District of the Northern Region.
The victims were robbed of their money, mobile phones and other valuable items running into several thousands of Ghana cedis.
The robbers allegedly manhandled a baby whose mother refused to obey their orders and inflicted wounds on some of the traders and the driver of the vehicle.
The Tamale Metropolitan Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Caesar Abanga, confirmed the incident to the Daily Graphic but he did not disclose the names of the suspects.
Narrating the incident, the driver of the vehicle, Alhaji Abdul Wahab Abdulai, said about 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, as he approached Yemo-Karaga, he saw the suspects flashing their searchlights and firing at the vehicle at the same time, which compelled him to stop.
He said as soon as he stopped, he was asked to switch on the lights inside his vehicle but he refused, which angered the robbers, for which they dragged him out of the vehicle.
According to Abdulai, one of the robbers slapped him and used the butt of a gun to hit him on the head and on his left hand and also took GH¢20 from him.
The robbers, he further said, then moved into the passengers and robbed them of their money and mobile phones.
One of the victims, Hardi Zakaria, a mobile phone dealer in Tamale, said he was robbed of 10 mobile phones and an unspecified amount of money.
According to the traders, the robbery lasted for an hour before a team of military personnel arrived on the scene and managed to arrest one of the suspects, who later led the police to the robbers’ hideout in the vicinity where the incident occurred.
The Regent of Yemo-Karaga, Mahama Abukari Andani, said he had been informed about the incident, noting that such incidents had become rampant in the town for some time now.
Information reaching the Daily Graphic indicated that this was the second time in six months that a similar incident had occurred on that same stretch of road.