Three employees of Aviance Ghana Limited have been captured on video breaking into the baggage of travellers at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra and stealing iPads and mobile phones from them.
The closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage captured baggage offloading activities in the bulk holding compartment of Emirates Flight EK787 that arrived at the KIA from Dubai on October, 2013.
Names of suspects
According to the police, the suspects, whose names were given as Emmanuel Sowah, 35; Abraham Armah, 33, and John Paul Dzanku, 36, conspired with Abraham Tetteh Pinto, a member of staff of Glory Height Profile Consult, to carry out the operation.
The first three have been working with Aviance Ghana since 2009.
The CCTV footage showed the three forcibly opening the baggage of some passengers of the Emirates flight and stealing gadgets, including iPads and mobile phones.
While Pinto kept watch to ensure that they were not caught, the three Aviance Ghana workers hid the stolen items in their working gear before leaving the bulk holding compartment.
Emirates Invites Aviance Security
The footage was seen 10 days after the incident when Emirates Airlines invited the management of the Aviance Security Department of the Ghana Airport Company Limited to watch it.
The management of the Airport Security, led by the Aviation Security Operations Manager, Mr Kennedy Affum Agyapong, was said to have been overwhelmed by what it saw.
One iPad retrieved
The Public Relations Officer of the CID, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mr Joseph B. Darkwa, told the Daily Graphic that Aviation Security officers later retrieved one iPad from suspect Dzanku upon a search.
He said all the four suspects deserted their posts and had since gone into hiding.
They have been charged with stealing and a warrant of arrest was obtained from the courts on January 14.
The four have been itemised on the police wanted list in the Police Gazette.
Pictures of the four suspects have been posted at vantage points at the KIA and on the notice boards of a number of police stations throughout the country.
It is believed, he said, that the suspects could be hiding in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, Somanya or in the Volta Region.
�Anybody with information on them should contact the nearest police station or the Director of the Commercial Crime Unit at the CID Headquarters in Accra,� the police notice stated.
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Source: Daily Graphic
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Good Job done. WE work soo hard to make life better for ourselves, family and the nation. Such enemy of progress would pay the price for their evil actions. Well done - the concerned authorites.
The security system at our various ports of entry have been so weak to the dislike of many Ghanaians, foreigners and holiday makers to the point that over 89 per cent of travelers have lost confidence in our port security. This is not news to me as a colleague traveler last two years suffered a great lost of his medicine, ipad, iphone, three lap tops, video and still cameras and many valuable items when he traveled from Toronto-Canada to Accra in Ghana. Upon filing a complaint at the airline's British Airways headquarters, he was paid a partly sum of 2,000 dollars as a compensation upon his return to Canada from Ghana. But his health deteriorated so bad due to the absence of his stolen medicine whiles he was in Ghana. There is too much pilfering at Tema Harbour, too much pilfering at Kotoka Airport,and as for Ghana Post Office, the least said the better. The criminal activities going on in our various ports of entry are so disgraceful to the country that its now time for the government to clean the system. Awefo nkoteeeee every where.