A Police officer and a supervisor at the Tema Motorway toll booth, have been arrested in connection with a robbery incident.<\/p>\n
Some suspected armed robbers on motorbikes on Sunday, broke into the toll booth and made away with about GHC 45,000.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”P6TLbZXLaynf2nTIyJH77dMoIfS4FHnd”]Reports say armed robbers stormed the tollbooth at the Tema end of the motorway at about 9:30pm, and made away with the amount, which is believed to be the entire revenue collected between Friday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Tema Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Joseph Benifo Darkwa, said Police have intensified security following the incident.<\/p>\n He further indicated that, the two had been picked up to assist the Police in its investigations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the patrol team patrolling around. We have the highway patrol team also doing their patrol so I think for now everything is okay…We are investigating to find out the facts on the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n It is unclear why such huge amount was kept at the collection point between Friday and Sunday, instead of being deposited at the bank.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Philip Lartey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Police officer and a supervisor at the Tema Motorway toll booth, have been arrested in connection with a robbery incident. Some suspected armed robbers on motorbikes on Sunday, broke into the toll booth and made away with about GHC 45,000. [contextly_sidebar id=”P6TLbZXLaynf2nTIyJH77dMoIfS4FHnd”]Reports say armed robbers stormed the tollbooth at the Tema end of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[3,2164,2165],"class_list":["post-369069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-robbery","tag-tema-toll-booth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}