Police arrest five suspected fake National Security operatives 

The Western North Regional Police Command has arrested five suspects who posed as National Security operatives at Suiaboi in the Suaman District. They are Amponsah Asare Wagan, 33, Nelson Agbodzah, 28, Awedagah Norbert, 27, Francis Brefo, 35, and Benjamin Boakye, 48.

At a media briefing at the Regional Police headquarters, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Dr Francis Kwame Tsidi, the Regional Commander said, on April 2, 2026 at about 1800 hours, the Police received information that some men dressed in security attire and claimed to be National Security operatives were driving through Suiaboi community visiting mining sites and demanding documentations and seizing items of people who were not actively mining at the time.

According to him, community members got alarmed with the conduct of the said individuals and decided to engage them for questioning. He noted that the police acting on intelligence followed up to the direction of the suspects arrested and sent them to the Dadieso Police station for further investigation.

DCOP Tsidi stated that interrogation revealed that, suspect Amponsah Asare Wagan, claimed to be a Medical Doctor, Nelson Agbodzah and Awedagah Norbert identified themselves as National Security Operatives with the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council and Nhyeaso NADMO office respectively.

He said investigation revealed that on April 2, 2026, suspect Amponsah Asare Wagan organised three of the other suspects in Kumasi and planned to embark on an unauthorised mining operation in the Western North Region.

He stated that they hired a Toyota Hilux with registration number GX 1095-19 from LEASAFRIC, a car rental company in Kumasi, with suspect Benjamin Boakye, as the Company’s driver.

He noted that group planned to go to Bibiani but ended up at Suiaboi where they went to a mining site to cause unlawful damage to mining equipment, ransacked victims’ rooms, and stole five mobile phones and GHC2000.00 in the process.

The Regional Police Commander disclosed that upon thorough investigation, Amponsah Asare Wagan, later confessed that he was paid by one Yaw, an ex-employee of the mining site, to expose the mining activities of his (Yaw) former boss.

Police retrieved two car batteries, three water pumping machines, a starter, some metals believed to be an excavator parts, five mobile phones, bunch of keys, an AA live cartridge, and a pair of military camouflage trouser, all belonging to the victims during a search in the Toyota Hilux.

DCOP Tsidi also stated that Mr. Francis Duah, the Transport Manager for LEASAFRIC, had furnished police with copies of the company’s registration documents and those of the vehicle, and that suspects would be put before court after the investigations.

He further cautioned that security agencies in the region would not entertain any act of lawlessness in the fight against illegal mining.

From Alex Baah Boadi, Sefwi Wioso

GNA 

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