Two arrested for stealing vehicle

Story: Moses Dotsey
Aklorbortu, Takoradi
06/03/08

Takoradi District CID Unit of the Ghana Police Service has arrested two young men in connection with a vehicle theft.
They allegedly stole the vehicle from Takoradi and used it as “trotro” in Accra for sometime and re-routed it between Accra and Aflao with one of the suspects as the driver.
The vehicle and the suspects were later arrested at Aflao and the driver later led the police to arrest his accomplice at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra.
The suspects, Isaac Aboagye, 27, a “bookman”, and Yakubu Awudu, 20, driver’s mate in the stolen vehicle, were said to have stolen the Hyundai Grace mini bus with registration number GN 7798 Y belonging to one Mr Joseph Prince Kelson in Takoradi.
The District Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Dela Dzansi, who confirmed the arrest to the Daily Graphic, said the suspects were currently on remand and helping the police in their investigations.
Awudu told the Daily Graphic that he was a conductor in the stolen vehicle before Aboagye approached him with the plan to steal the vehicle.
He said they tried on many occasions to make a duplicate key to the vehicle but did not succeed.
“Aboagye gave me many keys to start the vehicle to no avail, until the latest one he brought worked,” Awudu said.
Awudu said when he told Aboagye that the last key he brought had worked, he quickly moved to Takoradi and drove the vehicle to Accra and “told me not to go with him to Accra immediately otherwise my master would suspect me of stealing the vehicle. Based on the instructions he gave me l waited for a few days before joining Aboagye in Accra where he was operating trotro services,” said Awudu.
Awudu stated Aboagye later went on long distance journeys between Accra and Aflao and taught him how to evade the police on the way.
Aboagye said “if they ask me of my driver’s licence, I should give them that of the original driver, which he had left in the vehicle before it was stolen.
“I was later arrested by the police on my trip from Aflao with passengers,” he said.
Aboagye, however, denied Yakubu’s claims and said he reported at the lorry station with the vehicle and he only loaded it for him. He denied knowing Awudu anywhere.
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