They struck where it hardly occurred, and when none expected it was ever going to happen.
They tricked everybody to assume they were the police by mounting a checkpoint on the road as law enforcement agencies do from time to time. In this nocturnal operation, their would-be victims could hardly detect what lay ahead of them until they ran straight into their hands, and it was a sour night in the grips of what looked like hardened criminals.
They wielded firearms and brazenly ordered occupants of mini-commercial buses traveling the distance to get off the vehicles which had screeched to a halt, instinctively to offer themselves for routine police checks. At gunpoint, passengers were robbed of their possessions, and those who tried to escape into the bushes sideways, or were blatantly defiant were pursued and given a sound thrashing before the dispossessions. Luckily, bullets did not ring out.
Though this is an unusual occurrence on this particular road, the tactics employed by the criminals are to umpteenth time. The fight against crime has been weighing more toward reactive policing, though it is admissible that incubating incidents that are thwarted or prevented are not easily quantifiable or often publicized.
We are told even in the Bible, that the Devil plays an Angel trick to get to its victims. Regular operational forces in their counteractive measures ought to aim at the reality often presented by contending forces, the most deceptive of these being the duplication of the modus operandi of regular forces. This occurred on June 15, 2023. Somanya-Dodowa Road, never again. The Ghana Report continues on its crime-watch agenda in earnest.