Four persons have been arrested for allegedly snatching a taxi from its driver in Accra.
The suspects have been identified as John Asare, 20, alias Sharki, a trader; Fredrick Agokotei, 21, fisherman; Elvis Obiri Yeboah, 26, driver, and Adam Umar Mutala, 24, a student.
Attack
Briefing journalists in Accra yesterday, the Accra Regional Police Command Public Relations Officer, Mrs Afia Tenge, said the four suspects hired the services of the taxi driver at about 10 p.m. on May 17, 2017 from the American House Junction at East Legon to Mempeasem, near Ashalley Botwe.
On reaching Mempeasem, the suspects were said to have asked the taxi driver to stop, and when he obliged, they forcibly removed the ignition key even though the driver resisted.
That, she said, led to a struggle and one of the suspects inflicted machete wounds on the left hand and head of the taxi driver.
She said the suspects then succeeded in snatching the car and drove it away after pushing the taxi driver out.
She said preliminary investigations indicated that the suspects took the taxi to the Kokomba Market and offered it for sale at GH¢ 2,000 to be used as scrap.
Unknown to the suspects, a report had been made to the police and investigations led to their arrest while they attempted to sell the car.
Mrs Tenge appealed to both private and commercial drivers to be vigilant and report to the police any suspicious activity of persons who hired their services or would attempt to accost them.
Victim
The injured driver, whose left hand had been cast in a plaster of paris (POP), told the Daily Graphic that the four young men who hired his services on that fateful day chatted with him and gave him no cause to suspect they were criminals.
He expressed joy that they had been arrested and said he was optimistic they would be brought to book.
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