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Crime & Punishment of Thursday, 11 April 2019
Source: ghanaiantimes.com.gh
2019-04-11
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The Tema Community One Police is investigating the circumstances under which armed robbers allegedly broke into the National Investment Bank branch at the Meridian enclave on Sunday dawn.
They, however, did not steal anything.
The robbers numbering six, armed with knives and other implements entered the banking hall at about 2:15 am after breaking the back emergency exit where they ransacked the teller drawers and secured one of the two vault keys but threw it away on realizing they could not access the vault.
Police said the robbers attempted to remove a flat screen television set and a decoder but abandoned it and bolted it by the police.
The Ghanaian Times, 4:00 pm, a security man by name Bernard Baah, during routine checks to ensure switches had been turned off among others things, found a polythene bag containing an amount of GH ¢ 35,534.00 left behind by the Head Teller, Mrs. Medina Ablorh, and hiding in the yard.
Baah after locking the bank gave the keys to his supervisor, Christian Ago who feels the same to the police station for safe keeping.
Baah did not inform his supervisor about the money in the polythene bag.
The money turned out to be the National Lottery Authority.
Interestingly Baah informed the supervisor about the money in the polythene bag Sunday morning after the botched robbery operation.
The Tema Community One District Commander Chief Superintendent Stephen Kwakye confirmed the incident to the Ghanaian Times yesterday and said it was under investigation.
Meanwhile Medina Ablorh who was arrested on Tuesday by police to badist in investigations was bailed yesterday.
Chief Supt Kwakye said six break-ins had been recorded among some financial institutions located in the Meridian enclave since January 2019, adding police was doing it all to those behind those robberies.
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