FOUR PERSONS pretending to be working as sanitation taskforce of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) were arrested while conducting inspection, collecting mobile phones and extorting money from civilians at a lorry station in Kumasi on Thursday.
Gilbert Adama, Bright Sunkwa, Joseph Okyere and Daniel Obeng were arrested around 12 midnight at the Bolga/Bawku station near Asanteman Senior High School.
Police officers at Suame, acting on complaints from two victims, rushed to the spot and arrested the four who were later identified as former workers of KMA.
Superintendent George Ankomah, Suame District Police Commander, confirmed the incident to DAILY GUIDE and added that a case of extortion had been registered against the four suspects who, he indicated, were in custody of the police.
He explained that police received complaints from two of the victims, Gariba Abubakar and Ernest Mohammed about the nefarious activities of the miscreants.
According to him, when police got to the scene the suspects were still on their ‘operation’, collecting mobile phones and extorting money from some commuters and travellers.
Supt. Ankomah said the four persons who were using an Urvan bus with registration number AS 9770-10, claimed they were employees of KMA and they were conducting inspection and arresting recalcitrant offenders who were defecating around the area.
The police commander indicated that preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects were former casual workers of KMA at the Sanitation Department.
He added that the gang took advantage of their former post with the city authority to extort money from the unsuspecting public.
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