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As many Ghanaians predicted would happen, the two armed robbers from the Akufo-Addo Presidency who were arrested for storming the residence of a seventy-five year old woman at East Legon, robbing her and gang-raping her niece have been set free by the police!

To justify their release, a cock and bull story was given to the state-owned Daily Graphic which the paper published on page 62 in its issue yesterday under the heading “3 wrongly accused robbers saved from mob”.

The story claimed the two with another were in an area at East Legon on the back of a motor bike looking for an entertainment centre called Kikibies. A man who saw them asking for directions several times suspected they were armed robbers and raised an alarm. A policeman however saved the day for the three when he arrived on the scene just when an irate mob was about to lynch them. The said policeman managed to get the two to the police station.

This cock and bull story has shocked relatives and neighbours of the 75 year old woman victim of the armed robbers. Taking to facebook, a son of the 75 year old woman, Ekow, rubbished the Daily Graphic story wondering how the two could have been “wrongly accused” as the police is alleging when DNA and fingerprint tests conducted on the two revealed they were the perpetrators of the dastardly act. He also revealed the two were identified by five families during an identification parade.

Apparently, these five families had also been victims of armed robberies carried out in the area by the two and their gang.

Readers would recall that in its Monday, June 25, 2018 edition, the Daily Post published the story of the two busted armed robbers who stormed the residence of the retired English tutor of PRESEC, Legon, Mrs. Charlotte Akyeampong and robbed her and her household of money, jewelries, lap-tops, sets of pants and other items. Two of the six armed robbers also gang-raped a 48 year-old niece of the retired tutor. When the Legon police finally arrested them, they found on the three identity cards. One was a membership card of the ruling NPP, while the second was that of the Flagstaff House, seat of the President of Ghana which showed one of the two was a guard there and belonged to the operation unit. The third was a Ghana card.

All three bear the name Issa Muniru, who happened to be the name of one of the two men arrested. A security capo at the Presidency, a retired military officer, later turned up at the police station and got the two bailed.

The fear of many Ghanaians since the arrest was that the two would be released free of charge because they were Preident Akufo-Addo’s boys. This fear has come to pass with the cock and bull story the police gave and which was published by the Daily Graphic yesterday.

Below is the cock and bull story as published by the Daily Graphic.

3 wrongly accused robbers saved from mob

By Emelia Ennin Abbey

The timely intervention by the police saved three young men, including a guard at the ceremonial gates of the Jubilee House, from being lynched when they were mistaken for robbers at East Legon last Sunday night.

A man who suspected the three men, who were all riding on a motorbike in the East Legon vicinity, had allegedly raised an alarm that they were robbers, which drew the attention of some residents.

They were later taken to the East Legon Police Station when a policeman who was in the area saw the commotion generated by the alarm and intervened.
It was later speculated on some social media platforms that some men, including a man stationed at the ceremonial gates of the Jubilee House, had been arrested by the Legon Police for robbery.

It was also reported that the three were arrested in connection with a series of robberies at East Legon in which the victims, including a 75-year-old woman, were allegedly raped.

Not Robbers

When contacted, the Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr. George Alex Mensah, dismissed the reports that the young men were robbers, as had been reported earlier.

He gave their names as Issah Muniru, who is with the Operational Team at the Jubilee House, Moses Dadasu and David Metogo Melchizedek, both upcoming musicians.

According to him, when the three men were interrogated at the East Legon Police station, it was found that they were not robbers, as earlier reported.

Mr Mensah said investigations revealed that the three, who were riding on a motorbike together, kept asking for directions to an entertainment centre known as kikibees at East Legon where Tic Tac, a musician, was to perform. However, their frequent enquiries for directions to the location caught the attention of a man who started trailing them to a point.

When they kept asking for directions, the said man, whose identity was not made known by the police, raised an alarm that the three men on the motorbike were robbers, following recent incidents of robberies in the area.

“Had it not been for a policeman who arrived on the scene on time, they would have been lynched.

It turned out they were not robbers, as they had been accused of,” he said.