NPP organizer for New Juaben with other three persons have been arrested in connection with a robbery attack on the party’s New Juaben South Constituency Secretary, Isaac Agyabeng.
Prime News has learnt that the party’s Organizer for New Juaben South, Obeng Manu is also the Assembly Member for the Koforidua Nsukwao electoral area.
Obeng Manu and one Justice Peter Afful, alias Obo Yanki did not partake in the robbery but reportedly contracted the two other suspected robbers, and actually drove them to the residence of the Constituency Secretary at Koforidua to commit the crime.
According to the police in the Eastern Region, the suspected robbers allegedly forced their way into the house, but unfortunately met the absence of the constituency secretary, but, his personal aide, Pious Tevi, fell victim to the attack, and according to the police, they blindfolded him and ransacked the room.
In the end, they made away with the NPP’s Constituency album and register intended for the party’s upcoming constituency elections as well as an amount of GHc4, 000.
The New Juaben Municipal Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Cosmos Alan Anyan, who confirmed the incident said the robbers also stole four mobile phones among other things.
“This morning [Monday], at about 1:00 am, we received a report to the effect that one Pious Tevi who is an aide to the NPP constituency secretary, Isaac Agyabeng, was in Agyabeng’s residence when four armed men holding various implements, forcibly entered the room, they assaulted him, tied him up, blindfolded him and ransacked the room.â€
“They took away, according to him, GHc4, 000 belonging to the constituency secretary, four mobile phones, a bag containing some personal documents and envelopes containing albums and other electoral materials meant for the impending constituency elections,†the Police Commander said.
The Police Commander said the suspects confessed that they charged GHc1, 000 from Obeng Manu and Justice Afful, but the amount was reduced to GHc800 after negotiation.
Superintendent Anyan noted that the robbers also confessed receiving GHc400 on Sunday, February 18, 2018, with an assurance of getting the remaining amount after the work was done.
“They are still in custody and probably we will arraign them for robbery,†Superintendent Anyan noted.
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