Two conmen who posed as soldiers and ordered their victim to withdraw GH�5,000 from a bank after ransacking his room of various items are in the grips of the police.
The suspects: Issifu Massawudu, 27, an auto mechanic; and Edmund Asare Gyasi, 30, an electrician-who were in military uniforms, introduced themselves as a dentist and a nurse at the 37 Military Hospital to the victim.
According to the police, at about 7am last Wednesday, the suspects trailed the victim while he was on his way to his house at Awoshie.
The victim drove the two suspects to the Global Access Bank branch at Kwashieman to cash an amount which was a request from the suspects.
This was after the suspects had taken the victim�s laptop, mobile phones and other electrical gadgets from his room.
According to the Odorkor District Crime officer, DSP Emmanuel Osei Agbogah, at the bank, the victim mastered courage and quickly informed a bank teller of what was happening.
The teller, in turn, informed the branch manager. The branch manager then called the police, who responded swiftly and arrested Issifu and Edmund.
A third suspect, George Laryea, who introduced himself as a CID official, however, absconded.
During interrogation, the two suspects admitted they wore the military uniform to rob but they refused to tell the police the source of supply of the uniform.
At the Odorkor Police Station, the suspects were identified by another victim who had reported at the police station in February about an attack on him by the suspects as he came out of a bank at Awoshie.
The suspects, according to police, forced the victim into a taxi and drove him to somewhere around Airport where they took away the GH�1,200 he had cashed from the bank from him.
When the police contacted the Ghana Armed Forces, they discovered that the two were not soldiers.
DSP Osei-Agbogah said Issifu and Edmund would be charged for conspiracy to commit crime and impersonation.
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