Royal Motors Robbers Caged

Ten persons suspected to have stormed and robbed Royal Motors Company Limited in Accra have been dragged before an Accra Circuit Court.

They are Ila Abdul Hamid, 30, businessman; Ali Mutah, 27, mechanic; Alhassan Illiasu, aka Arabeman, 38, bus dealer; Musa Abubakar, 22, Auto mechanic and Wisdom Cudjoe, aka Jaroam, 29.

The others are Suleman Kasaim, 21, Mechanic apprentice; Faisal Mohammad, 22, trader; Yusif Ibrahim, aka Gyiwah, drivers’ mate; Tahiru Abubakar, 20 and Yusif Idris, 20 both traders.

The ten, in Rambo-style stormed the company at North Industrial Area in Accra and reportedly made away with GH₵500,000 belonging to the company.

According to the prosecution led by Supt.  Kweku Benpah, the accused persons on February 27 robbed one Lina Zhang Sioting of her gold necklace and two mobile phones worth GH₵5,200.

Suleman, Faisal, Yusif, Tahiru and Yusif have been slapped with an additional charge of abetting the five others to rob the company.

Appearing in a court presided over by Aboagye Tandoh, the accused persons speaking various Ghanaians languages denied the charges.

They were however remanded into Police custody until April 4, 2018.

This was after the court had refused to grant bail to the accused person as requested by the defense lawyers.

The court ordered the lawyers to come formally.

The lawyers had also requested the court to order the prosecution to give them a copy of the charge and fact sheets.

The complaints in the case are Baba Alhassan, marketing and sales manager of the company and Lina also a cashier at the company.

On February 27, Ali went to the Royal Motors under the pretext of buying a motorcycle. Whilst there, he saw the sales of the company in a safe, he left and called to inform his accomplices who armed with all kinds of weapons including AK 47 assault rifle invaded the company on board Toyota corolla with fake registration numbers.

Musa, Baba Kramo, currently at large and Jaroam held the security men hostage at gun point, overpowered the resistance of all others on duty and succeeded in robbing the afore mentioned cash and necklace.

Faisal stood at a distance monitoring and alerting the others to talk cover. When the accused persons detected that they had been captured by the CCTV at the premises they removed it to avoid identification and bolted amidst firing of gunshot in different directions.

While escaping their car rammed into a BMW saloon car with registration GT 2277 P which was badly damaged and as such they abandoned it and snatched a Toyota corolla vehicle with registration ER 5990 X from a witness after shooting him at the back of his shoulder.

On reaching Ablekuma Borkorborkor, they again abandoned the vehicle and snatched an unregistered Hyndai Accent car with a DV plate number 145-18 and bolted with it.

On March 10, Ila hearing that Kamaru, a member of the gang has been killed in Kumasi he instructed Musa and Kramo to go and take the weapons they used in committing the robbery and his share of the booty from the room of the deceased at Dansoman to frustrate investigations.

Police intelligence led to the arrest of Ila and Musa. Musa said Kramo has in his custody the pistol and AK 47 assault rifles while a cash sum of GHC3,980 was retrieved from his room as his share of the booty.

By: Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson/ thePublisher