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Kofi Boakye to bullion van robbers: We’ll arrest you

The police have assured Ghanaians that they will soon bring the seemingly marked spate of crime in the country under control

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  • "I’m at this point on behalf of the Inspector General of Police and the Police administration assuring everybody and the entire nation that these criminals, especially those who committed last week’s crime and all others who have committed other crimes in recent times, are going to be arrested soon, and I mean soon. Their arrest is non-negotiable to the service. They can run and run, but we will get them."

The police have served notice to the people who attacked a bullion van on Monday 14 June in James Town, in the capital, Accra, that they will be arrested.

Speaking at the passing-out ceremony for 320 recruits into the Ghana Police Service in Kumasi, Commissioner of Police (COP) Nathan Kofi Boakye, the director general of legal and prosecution for the Service, said the robbers can run but they cannot hide for ever.

“At this point, I must emphasise the fact that the Ghana Police Service is able and capable and has the ability to arrest these criminals,” COP Boakye said.

“Non-negotiable”

“I’m at this point, on behalf of the Inspector General of Police and the police administration, assuring everybody and the entire nation that these criminals, especially those who committed [this] week’s crime, and all others who have committed other crimes in recent times, are going to be arrested soon, and I mean soon.

“Their arrest is non-negotiable to the service. They can run and run, but we will get them.

“It is incumbent on all of us, including you – the new recruits – to help us achieve this objective, starting from now … you have a duty of arresting these criminals who killed one of us. This is non-negotiable and we cannot compromise on the need to arrest these criminals.”

Big bounty

Meanwhile, the police have placed a GHC20,000 bounty on the armed men who attacked the bullion van in Adedenkpo, an area within James Town, Accra, on Monday, leaving a police guard and a trader dead.

Superintendent Sheilla Kessie Abayie-Buckman, the director of public affairs for the Police Service, announced the package on Tuesday.

The move, she said, is to encourage the public to volunteer information which can lead to the arrest of the suspects.

“Police continue to encourage the public to be on the lookout for the perpetrators of the heinous crime that occurred at James Town in Accra,” Abayie-Buckman said.

“The Inspector General of Police has announced a reward of GHC20,000 to any person who gives credible information to the police for the arrest of the perpetrators, and in this regard we assure informants of utmost protection of their identity.”

IGP: We’re not in heaven

Meanwhile, the IGP, James Oppong-Boanuh, has hit back at critics who say, following the bullion van attack in Accra, that he is out of touch with the latest security strategies.

“We are doing what we can to protect the people of Ghana,” Oppong-Boanuh told reporters after visiting the family of the officer who was shot in the attack.

“There is no society in the world where there is no crime. Even in the USA, UK and Sweden, where they more or less have everything, they still have crime.

“The only place that doesn’t have crime is heaven and we are not in heaven.

“So, if any so-called security analyst is saying that we are not on top of our game and that’s why these things are happening, he does not know what he is talking about,” he said.

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