Tag Archives: Armed

Personnel from the Abor Police Command in the Volta Region have gunned down three suspected armed robbers in a robbery operation at Tsive- Kpotame near Kpadzakope, a suburb of Abor. The incident, which occurred on Sunday, February 12, 2023, at about 0125 hours, resulted in the killing of the three …

A 39-year-old taxi driver, Kojo Amonoo was nearly shot dead at Ajumako after armed robbers snatched his taxi cab from him. According to the victim, a young girl about 14 years old hired him to drive her to a building construction site surrounded by a bush. He narrated to Kasapa …

Suspected armed robbers have shot and killed a 40-year-old physically challenged farmer at Branam, a farming community in the Wenchi Municipality of the Bono Region. The body of the deceased, Yaw Takwa, has been deposited at the Wenchi Methodist Hospital for preservation and autopsy. During a visit to the area …

Even though there was violence everywhere in the 1980s and 1990s, armed robberies in Ghana were extremely rare. Although I drove a cab and a trotro in Accra and Cape Coast, I never encountered any armed robbers there. It was after traveling from Ghana to Nigeria in the early 1980s, …

The Chief of Ejura Traditional Area, Barima Osei Hwedie II, has destooled one of his sub-chiefs for allegedly aiding some nomadic herdsmen in suspected armed robbery attacks in the area.   The chief of Miminaso No2, Nana Obri Yeaboah was destooled on Sunday November 27, 2022 following the killing of …

The Police have arrested one armed robber and are pursuing his accomplices for the murder of a male adult later identified as a Police officer. The suspect, Salifu Adams, and his gang of robbers attacked the victim on 25th November, 2022 between Miminaso no.2 and Nyamebekyere on the Ejura Nkoranza …

A Police Constable has met his untimely death after he was shot by armed men suspected to be robbers. According to a police situational report sighted by MyNewsGh.com, Constable Moses Konee who is aged about 29 was riding from Ejura towards Nzema. Upon reaching a spot between Miminaso Number 2 …

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has refuted news publications alleging that some of its officers are being chased by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for stealing $800,000 which was to be used as allowances for peacekeeping troops. According to GAF, the said $800,000 was paid to the …

A gang of five armed robbers attacked a family of five at Dodowa and made away with GH¢15,000 and phones after hitting the husband’s head with a pestle on November 2, 2022. On SVTV Africa’s Eyewitness Report, one of the victims, Esther Laryea, reported on how the incident occurred. The …

There has been an attempted kidnapping on the Gomoa Akotsi-Winneba highway in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The victim, a 40-year-old woman has been left with a deep cutlass wound inflicted on her palm by one of the attackers. The incident occurred on Wednesday, October 19, when …