A mobile currency exchange vendor who outwitted two suspected robbers by giving them a bag stuffed with rags instead of one with $60,000 received gunshots in his leg and the back of his head in the precincts of the Fiesta Royale Hotel at Dzorwulu in Accra last Friday.
The victim (name withheld) was taken to the Police Hospital in Accra by some Good Samaritans.
The Accra Regional Police Command has mounted a search for the suspected robbers who bolted on a motorbike after shooting the victim.
What happened
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Effia Tenge, said the victim told the police that he received a call on Thursday, April 11, 2019 from an unknown caller who requested $60,000 in exchange for Ghana cedis.
The victim, who claimed he was suspicious of the caller because he knew all his clients and also because the amount involved was huge, said he ignored the call.
The victim’s decision to ignore the caller was also because the caller refused to disclose where he got his (victim’s) contact from.
The same caller followed up with another call the next day requesting the same amount of money.
Mrs Tenge said the victim then asked the caller to meet him at the Airport Police Station or any other police station, to which the caller agreed that they meet at the Airport Police Station.
She said the victim got to the Airport Police Station at the agreed time and after a while when the caller was not showing up, he called the number that had called him to request the money.
The person who responded at the other end is said to have told the victim that he was lodging at the Fiesta Royale Hotel and that the money was too bulky to be carried around.
Shooting
He, therefore, asked the victim to meet him instead at the Fiesta Royale Hotel since it was closer to his bank, where he would withdraw the cedi equivalent.
When Ansah arrived at the Fiesta Royale Hotel and called the unknown number, the recipient asked the victim to give a brief description of himself, including the colour of the shirt he was wearing, to which the victim obliged.
The victim said a man approached him and identified himself as the one who had been calling him and suddenly pulled a gun and ordered the victim to hand over the bag he was carrying at his back.
When Ansah refused, the suspected robber fired gunshots indiscriminately into the air.
The victim, who told the police he was gripped with fear, said he attempted to run into the reception area of the hotel but was shot by the suspected robber.
After shooting Ansah, the suspected robber snatched the bag he thought was full of money and jumped onto a waiting motorbike which sped off.
Some police officers on duty at a traffic intersection close to the Fiesta Royale Hotel who heard the gunshot joined some persons close to the scene and arranged for the victim to be taken to the Police Hospital while they put distress calls through to the police control room.
Mrs Tenge said the victim, who was admitted to the Police Hospital, had since been discharged.
Source: Graphic.com
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yes oo, name withheld, but who is ANSAH, ask again
I CAN SMELL A RAT IN THE WHOE EPISODE. WITH MY LITTLE LEGAL BRAINS I CAN HARDLY TRUST THIS STORY. THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN THE SURFACE THAT WE HAVE BEEN MADE TO BELIEVE. THE VENDOR COULD BE A SYNDICATE OR AN ACCOMPLICE TO SOME EARLIER DEALINGS OR TRANSACTIONS. HE HAS TO BE INTERROGATED FULLY BY INTELLIGENT SECURITY OFFICERS. I STRONLGY BELIEVE THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN WE HAVE BEEN TOLD.
***barred word*** SO YOUR RISKED YOUR LIFE FOR NOTHING, WHEN YOU KNOW VERY WELL THE ARE CRIMINALS. WHAT'S THE SENSE IN YOUR ACTION
So what if you died? To risk your life to go meet them in the first place and you claim the bag ONLY contained rugs? You risk your life for rugs??? Very stupidoo
Is this the peaceful Ghana we know? It is scaring every day.When will this end?
this is a typical ***barred word*** vendor, how can you be so sure of someone you haven't met before and just on phone call you agree to such a big deal. the moment he changed the meeting place from the police Station to the Hotel he should have sense some danger and mistrust. He was just lucky to have survived.
ask again?
Name withheld for security reasons.......so who is ANSAH? Ghana dey be k3k3!!!