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  • Inspector Twumasi, Tarkwa gold robbery, Kwame Ani: 3 groundbreaking arrests by GPS in April 2023

    Inspector Twumasi, Tarkwa gold robbery, Kwame Ani: 3 groundbreaking arrests by GPS in April 2023

    The Ghana Police Service has appears to be gaining public trust with its recent operations, particularly with arrests carried out recently.

    Previously, the service had been under public criticism over a number of wrongs and accusations against it.

    To a large extent, the public image of the service has been on the negative side of conversations.

    They police have been accused of bribery and corruption, extorsion, incompetence and unprofessionalism, among others.

    However, in the last few weeks, the police service has made some great strides in their service delivery by making some major arrests within good time.

    In this piece, we breakdown some three major arrests made the Ghana Police Service in the last few weeks, which require commendation.

    Police confirm arrest of Axim galamsey kingpin, Kwame Ato Ani; three others:

    Kwame Ato Asare, alias Kwame Ani was arrested by the police together with three other members of his gang.

    He is a notorious illegal miner together with three others who attacked the Axim District Police patrol team on March 9, 2023.

    His arrest added to eight, the number of suspects linked to the crime, and who had been arrested at the time.

    Kwame Ato Asare and the three other suspects, Williams Kwofie, Richard Kwesi and Emmanuel Kojo Bronie, who were on the police radar, went into hiding following the attack on the patrol team.

    They were arrested on April 21, 2023, at a village near Enchi in the Western North Region.

    Kwame Ato Asare, while in hiding, made allegations of extortion against the Axim District Police Commander, the Crime Officer and other police officers in the district, through several media interviews, which are currently being investigated by the Police Professional Standards Bureau (PPSB).

    Tarkwa gold robbery: Two foreigners and a Ghanaian arrested:

    The Tarkwa Police Command confirmed the arrest of three suspects: a Togolese, a Nigerian and a Ghanaian, in connection with the Tarkwa gold robbery that happened on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

    The suspects are Samuel Amaeshi, a Togolese, 47 years; Ezekiel Stephen, a Nigerian, 45 years; and Fataw Awudu, a Ghanaian of 42 years.

    These three suspects were part of six armed robbers who were wearing face masks and helmets and entered the KK Gold buying agency and subjected victims to severe beatings at gunpoint.

    They made away with gold weighing 408.5 grams, worth six hundred and thirteen thousand Ghana cedis (GH¢613,000.00), and an undisclosed amount of money, while on three motorbikes.

    Intelligence gathered by the police indicated that the robbers used the Tarkwa Banso, Esuso Bonsawire Road, and so communities within the enclave were informed.

    On the evening of Tuesday, April 18, the Police Intelligence Department and a police patrol team, with the assistance of community folks, arrested two suspects: Samuel Amaeshi and Ezekiel Stephen.

    A sack containing cash sum of three hundred and ninety-seven thousand, one hundred and ninety cedis (GH¢397,190) and gold that weighs 4.7 grams, were also retrieved.

    The Police Intelligence Department, upon intelligence, later arrested Fataw Awudu on Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

    All three suspects are currently in police custody while the police still makes attempts get the others arrested.

    Inspector Ahmed Twumasi arrested – Police confirm:

    Inspector Ahmed Twumasi, who shot his girlfriend, Maa Adwoa, 26, at Adum in the Ashanti Region, went into hiding after the incident on Thursday, April 20, 2023

    On Sunday, April 23, 2023, however, the Ghana Police Service announced the arrest of the inspector, following an operation launched to track him down.

    The operation, according to the police, led to the suspect’s arrest at Sekyere, near Effiduase in the Ashanti Region.

    The suspect is currently in police custody after his first appearance in court on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

    Twumasi told the court that he shot Maa Adwoa five times over a GH¢5000 debt she owed him and that what happened was between him and God.

  • Axim galamsey kingpin is my small boy – A Plus discloses

    Axim galamsey kingpin is my small boy – A Plus discloses

    Activist and politician, Kwame Asare Obeng alias A Plus has disclosed that he has an affiliation with wanted Galamsey lord, Kwame Ani.

    He said he has asked galamsey fugitive, Kwame Ato Ani Asare to hand himself over to the police.

    According to A Plus who described Ani as his “small boy,” he has entreated him to report himself to the police for investigations to continue into the claims made against him by the police.

    “Kwame is my small boy. I posted the video. I have been in contact with Kwame Ani from the beginning of the issue and I posted the video because I wanted everyone to see the video.

    “We assessed everything and came to the conclusion that if we don’t share the video, it will become the everyday issue where a person is labelled an armed robber, shot and killed by the police with no questions asked. So we wanted to make it a national issue.

    “I spoke to Kwame and I asked him to hand himself over to the police. I told him I will come to Axim myself and pick him and hand over to the police,” he said.

    While condemning the actions of Ani, A Plus stated that the police are equally to blame for creating a criminal out of him as a result of Ani’s work with the police as an informant.

    “Kwame is a stubborn boy… but his stubbornness as a result of him being empowered by the police. When we talk about the police nobody should defend them. Only a few people in the police are good people, the majority of them are bad nuts. Just two years ago, a police officer involved in an accident was found to be transporting a stash of weed. It was in this same country that a police killed his colleague on bank escort duty because they wanted to steal the money..,” he stated.

    Kwame Ato Asare Ani is the name currently dominating the media space in Ghana following events around a viral video in which he and a group of men were captured in a heated confrontation with some police officers.

    The police have since labeled him as the leader of a criminal group and has put him on a wanted list even though Ani, speaking to some media houses from a hideout has denied the allegation.

    A viral video showed a gang of men confronting a group of police officers for purportedly seeking to arrest their leader.

    Identified in a statement later released by the police as Kwame Ani Asare, the gang leader accused the police officers of seeking to arrest him after paying them a bribe.

    Amidst threats, one of the officers is seen in the video going on his knees to plead with the gang leader.

    The Ghana Police Service said it received a report on March 28, 2023, that a group of officers from the Axim Police Command had been attacked by the gang in question.

    The police stated that it conducted an operation which has led to the arrest of four members of the gang.

    However speaking to some media houses from a hideout, the gang leader said he was no robber but an informant who has been collecting money from small scale miners and delivering to the police.

    According to him, the attempt by the police to arrest him is on the back of his refusal to hand over some GH ₵100,000.00 he had collected from a galamsey site to the police.

    He noted that the refusal to hand over the money is a result of the police cheating him out in various previous deals, the arrest of four members of the gang while the leader, Kwame Ani remains at large and on their wanted list.