At long last, residents in the
Ashanti Region can sleep easy. One unnamed informant however will sleep soundly
with the knowledge that his good deed and exercise of his civic responsibility
has netted him Gh¢ 5,000.
After an almost two-year-long search
for notorious criminal, Baba Musa, Ashanti regional police today have finally
captured the elusive armed robber.
On the run after jumping bail in
2013 for earlier crimes, the armed robber continued to terrorise citizens,
which earned him a well-deserved place on the Police Command’s most wanted list
and a GH¢5,000 bounty on his head.
Speaking to Joy News, Ashanti
Regional PRO, ASP Mohammed Tanko, revealed that the brazen man, who is alleged
to have been involved in robberies from as far back as 2011, was arrested at
Nkawkaw.
He declined to offer more
information on the location, stating that investigations were currently ongoing
to find out if any persons had been sheltering him there.
ASP Tanko explained that in 2013,
Musa was released from remand prison on bail, which he immediately jumped, and
that he quickly returned to his criminal activities.
According to the police PRO, the
impunity with which Musa was terrorising people, inflamed the Regional
Command’s determination to capture him.
The police PRO said it took about three
months after the police declared the reward, for the information which led to
the arrest to be provided.
He revealed the criminal was known
to threaten people into keeping quiet about his activities which led to
people being wary about coming forward, adding that Musa was notorious for
shooting a man in the eye and a journalist in both legs.
He said the Police received some
tip-offs which proved unsuccessful, after the bounty was declared, but
that the tipoff about the Nkawkaw hideout proved accurate.
The brave informant has since been
given his reward.
ASP Tanko said that Musa was
arrested peacefully; there was no exchange of fire. He attributed this to the
fact that Musa had had no prior warning of their swoop and that he was unarmed
at the time of arrest.
Responding to questions of the
recent jailbreak in the Ashanti Region, the PRO said that after the
jailbreak, security in the prisons have been tightened and cells secured. He
assured the general public that there was no way that Musa would escape their
custody.
He thus prevailed on witnesses to
crimes perpetrated by Musa to come forward to identify him and assist the
police put together an air-tight case against him.
Source: Ghana|adomonline.com
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