Three armed robbers in court

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A taxi driver who was allegedly robbed of his taxi cab in March when three armed men hired his cab narrated how the operation was carried out at a High Court in Cape Coast on Friday.
Mr Emmanuel Tetteh, led in evidence by Mrs Hannah Taylor, a State Attorney, told the court presided over by Justice Justin Kofi Dorgu that on March 26 the accused persons, Abass Sulley, a student, Theophilus Aryee, a mason, and Tanko Nuhu, an electrician, hired his taxi from the Macarthy Hill junction to Kasoa.
When they got to Kasoa they asked him to continue to Opeikuma, a suburb of Kasoa, to enable them to inspect their land and on reaching the outskirts of the community, Aryee asked him to stop.
They got out and inspected a plot they claimed belonged to them.
They told him to move further to enable them to inspect another plot and he obliged but on their way Aryee again asked him to stop and he did.
Aryee pulled a pistol while Nuhu pulled a knife. They asked him to hand over the keys to them which he did and they drove away.
The victim said he got a taxi and went after the robbers but they went they could not locate them so he lodged a complaint with the police at Kasoa.
He said Sulley and Nuhu were arrested in their house at Kasoa where the car was hidden with all the documents together with the identification tags and stickers on it removed.
They named Aryee as their accomplice and a pistol was found in his possession on his arrest.