Two suspected armed robbers believed to be among the eight-member robbery gang that killed an Ambulance driver have been arrested.
They were arrested by Police after an intelligent.
Former Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Darfuor disclosed this yesterday when he together with Honourable Dan Kwaku Botwe (MP for Okere and Minister for Local Government and Rural Development designate), Hon. Seth Kwame Acheampong ( Eastern Regional Minister-designate), Regional Police Commander DCOP Edward Akrofi Oyirifi, the District Chief Executive for Okere, Hon. Daniel Kenneth and some Security personnel visited the crime scene at Asseseeso.
The team before visiting the crime scene held an indoor meeting to strategize on short-term and long-term measures to end the incessant robbery attacks on the road.
In the short term, Security tents will be mounted at the stretch of the road whilst measures put in place in the long term to re-engineer the road to increase visibility and clear bushes that have become a haven for criminals.
Highway robbers on Thursday, February 4, 2021, at about 1:00 am dawn attacked the ambulance vehicle and shot the driver in the head while rushing a pregnant woman in labor from the Akuse Government Hospital to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua
Information gathered indicates that the driver in charge of Yilo Krobo Constituency Ambulance vehicle with registration Number GV 644-20 went to pick the woman who was in preterm labor (31 weeks) from Akuse government Hospital to Eastern Regional Hospital since Akuse Hospital has no incubator.
However, the vehicle bumped into the robbery operation on the Aseseeso community stretch of the road. The armed robbers upon seeing the beacon light started shooting into the vehicle from a range which led to the gunshot wound of the driver.
The armed robbers rushed closer to the Ambulance Vehicle and upon noticing it wasn’t police still went ahead to demand money from the EMT personnel taken care of the pregnant woman which they collected from her at gunpoint Ghc11 and mobile phone and fondled her breast.
A victim who was in one of the vehicles robbed by the armed robbers got down from the vehicle after the robbers had fled and drove the Ambulance together with the injured officer and the pregnant women to Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital.
The ambulance driver was in critical condition but was resuscitated and referred to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital but died later while the traumatic pregnant woman was referred to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua where she delivered.
The Ambulance driver, Senior Emergency Medical Technician – Abraham Tetteh died at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra Saturday, February 6, 2021
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
