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NPP organiser, three others arrested for robbery

Superintendent Anyan noted that the robbers also confessed receiving GH¢4000 on Sunday.

He was arrested together with with three persons for robbing the party's New Juaben South Constituency Secretary, Isaac Agyabeng.

The suspect, Obeng Manu doubles as the Assembly Member for the Koforidua Nsukwao electoral area.

Three suspects; Tanko, Wadoski, and Mafia, including Obeng Manu are currently in police custody assisting police investigations.

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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 Eastern Regional police, 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.

The police said 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 GH¢4000.

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According to the New Juaben Municipal Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Cosmos Alan Anyan, 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," he added.

"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 GH¢4000 on Sunday, February 18, 2018, with an assurance of getting the remaining amount after the work was done.

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"They are still in custody and probably we will arraign them for robbery," Superintendent Anyan added.

He said the police will treat the matter as a criminal case. "It is a criminal matter so we are looking at it as such.  It is not politics," he added.

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