{"id":402752,"date":"2018-02-20T07:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=402752"},"modified":"2018-02-20T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:41:16","slug":"mobile-money-robber-arrested-madina-escaping-lynching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/mobile-money-robber-arrested-madina-escaping-lynching\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Money robber arrested at Madina after escaping lynching"},"content":{"rendered":"
One person was arrested on Monday for attacking a mobile money merchant at Madina, a suburb of Accra.<\/p>\n
The other suspect involved in the attack is however on the run.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”99sZOBwFgQ4wsoKzUf4Fmc6rUlx0O8d1″]The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, ASP Afia Tenge, told Citi News<\/strong> the two were on an unregistered motorbike when they carried out the attack.<\/p>\n \u201cThis [Monday] afternoon, between the hours 1.30 and 2, some two armed men on an unregistered motorbike attacked a mobile money vendor at Madina\u2026They managed to rob the mobile money vendor but unfortunately one of them was overpowered, the other one managed to escape but the suspect we currently have in our custody was not able to escape. He was overpowered by residents in the community. The other one who is also on the run is also being searched for,\u201d said ASP Tenge.<\/p>\n There have been a series of attacks on mobile money merchants in the country.<\/p>\n The most recent one resulted in the killing of a 31-year old operator at Kronom-Kyeraasi in the Afigya Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n