3 cattle rustlers arrested

A director of Dream Football Academy at Dawu- Akuapem, Abass Yussif, 29, was among three men arrested last night by personnel of the Volta Regional Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD), for allegedly rustling eight cattle from a hamlet in the North Tongu  District.

The suspects had crammed the animals into two mini-buses and were transporting them to Ashaiman, when they were intercepted at a spot at Mummy-Water, near Adomi, in the Eastern Region.

The police gave the identities of the other suspects as Amoako Kwame, 30, Bright Segbefia, 21, an electrician.

A police spokesman told the Ghanaian Times here yesterday that after they were arrested, the suspects attempted to bribe the police with GH₵1,540,  the police were keeping as exhibit in the case.

According to the spokesman, the vehicles carrying the cattle from the hamlet in the Juapong-Volo-Adidome area, were intercepted in the night at about 1 am.

That was after the owners of the animals had made a distress phone call to the police at a barrier in the area.

The call, the spokesman said, coincided with a routine check by the MTTD team in the area.

It emerged that the alleged rustlers had attacked the hamlet, assaulted the owners of the animals and tied them up before getting the animal ‘on board’ the mini-buses and speeding off.

The vehicles, GR 2136 -19, which belongs to the football academy, and the other, GT3516 -17 have been impounded together with the cattle.

FROM ALBERTO MARIO NORETTI, MUMMY-WATER