Police arrest 3 over robberies targeting bank customers in Kumasi

THE authorities have actually jailed 3 Nigerian nationals believed of coming from a criminal distribute that presumably robbed bank clients of large amounts of cash in Kumasi and its environments.

The suspects, determined as Aboy Promise, 30, Favour Uwalaka, 45, and Kingsley, alias KC, 35, were apprehended in different operations at hotels in Moshie Zongo and Dechemso.

According to a declaration signed by the Head of the general public Affairs Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, Superintendent of Police Godwin Ahianyo, the arrests followed an intelligence-led operation on October 31, 2026, including workers from the Anti-Armed Robbery Unit of the CID Headquarters and the Accra Regional Police Intelligence Directorate.

A search of the spaces inhabited by Promise and Uwalaka at a hotel in Moshie Zongo resulted in the healing of GH cents 1,600, various cellphones, a Royal motorcycle and a master essential supposedly utilized to get unauthorised access to lorries and take money.

Initial examinations suggested that the distribute kept an eye on banking properties, recognized consumers who withdrew significant amounts of cash and tracked them before assaulting and robbing them.

They likewise apparently pre-owned master secrets to burglarize ignored automobiles coming from bank clients and take money kept within.

Throughout interrogation, Promise and Uwalaka apparently confessed their participation in the burglaries and discussed 2 supposed accomplices, determined as Chinedu, alias Alhaji, and Kingsley, alias KC.

The 2 consequently led the cops group to another hotel at Dechemso, where Kingsley was jailed. Chinedu, nevertheless, stays at big, triggering the cops to appeal for public help in finding him.

The declaration suggested that the suspects had actually confessed robbing a victim of GH cents 15,000 at Asokore Mampong on October 27, 2026, after the victim withdrew the cash from Kwamang Rural Bank.

It included that they likewise supposedly confessed to comparable burglaries at the Atonsu branch of Fidelity Bank, the Ahodwo branch of Access Bank and other areas within Kumasi and its environments.

All 3 suspects have actually given that been turned over to the Ashanti Regional Police Command and are helping with examinations.

The Command has actually warned bank consumers to stay watchful, keep an eye out for suspicious individuals around banking facilities and prevent leaving money or belongings ignored in lorries.

It even more prompted anybody with details on the location of Chinedu to report to the closest police headquarters or call the cops on 191, 112 or the toll-free MTN and Telecel line 18555.

BY STEPHANIE BIRIKORANG

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