TEMA POLICE HAUNT FOR SUSPECTS (PAGE 23, MAY 17, 2010)

The Tema Regional Police Command has mounted a search for two suspects who allegedly broke into the room of their employer and made away with GH¢ 120,000 meant for paying some cashew nut farmers at Sampa in the Brong Ahafo Region.
The suspects, Efoe Evans Kouko, a 25-year-old houseboy and Francis Appiah, a 35-year-old security guard of G4 Security Services, have absconded and are on the run.
According to the Regional Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), Chief Inspector Olivia Turkson, the Circuit Court ‘B’ in Tema has issued warrants for their arrest, adding that anyone with information on the suspects would ‘be suitably rewarded’.
Narrating the incidence to the Daily Graphic, Chief Inspector Turkson said on the May 5, 2010, the Director of 3F Ghana Limited, exporters of agricultural products, Mr Kush Tandon, who lived at Tema Community 11 instructed his houseboy, Kouko, to be up early because he (Kush) would be travelling to Sampa in the Brong Ahafo Region where he purchased cashew for export.
She said when Mr Kush got up the following morning, May 6, 2010, he could not find the houseboy but was later informed by his garden boy that he found the gates opened when he reported for duty.
Chief Inspector Turkson said it was then that the absence of the security officer was noticed and, therefore, a report was made to the G4 Security Services.
She said Mr Kush then went to check on the money he had brought home to enable him pay for the agricultural products he had ordered for.
Chief Inspector Turkson said Mr Kush found out that the positions of the boxes in which he kept the money had shifted and finally realised that it had been stolen.
She said Mr Kush, therefore, reported the case to the police but an initial search for the culprits did not yield any results.
Chief Inspector Turkson says the houseboy, Kouko, is fair in complexion, stoutly built, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and speaks Ewe, Twi, English and is believed to be hiding in Tema Community 11, Tema New Town, Ho, Bamako-Mali or Lome-Togo.
Francis Appiah-Kyi, the security guard, is an Nzema, 5 feet 6 inches tall, dark in complexion and believed to be hiding in Tema Community 2, Cape-Coast, Sekondi Takoradi, Abidjan or Eikwei.
Chief Inspector Turkson said people with information on the two suspects must contact the police on telephone numbers 0303-201543, 0303-202937,0243-111884 or report to the nearest police station.