Alleys and streets in Aflao are increasingly becoming dangerous as thugs dispersed by persistent Police swoops on their hideouts are attacking and robbing transit travellers waiting for the border to open.
Most of the attacks reported occurred around the Timber Market and the Lorry Park during the early hours of the day.
Victims of the more than 10 attacks reported to the Police in June were foreigners from sister states of Benin, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria.
In a story corroborated by the Police, a local source told the Ghana News Agency that the robbers waylaid their victims, waiting to continue their journey and others who go into dark alleys to urinate.
The source said the robbers, who move in groups of four and five snatch bags containing money, mobile phones, passports and other valuables from their victims.
What is more baffling is that the public does not heed to shouts for help by the victims, probably, for fear of the thugs, the source said.
Chief Inspector Frimpong Manso, in-charge of Aflao Police Station, said on June 1, two Ivorien drivers, who were in transit, called at the station at dawn with abrasions and said while sleeping beside their vehicles along the street, five robbers armed with pistols and knives attacked them and took 30,000 CFA from them.
He said on June 23, a Togolese woman also reported at dawn that she had been attacked while, on her way to the toilet and robbed of 350,000 CFA, a mobile phone and passport.
Chief Inspector Frimpong said there were several other attacks that were not reported to the Police because victims were in a hurry to continue with their journey.
He said most of the victims who reported failed to stay to assist the Police in their investigations.
Chief Inspector Frimpong said no arrest has so far been made but said the clamp down on the criminals would continue until they were flushed out from the streets of Aflao.
Source: GhanaWeb
