Taxi driver murdered; car snatched at Apam junction

A 23-year-old taxi driver has been murdered and dumped in a nearby bush at Gomoa Ankamu in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region.

A resident, Joe Abekah, said the deceased sustained a lot of deep cuts on his head.

According to him, the killers must have hired the deceased from Mankessim.

The body has been conveyed by Apam District Police Command to Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital Mortuary for preservation whiles investigations ongoing, ,Kasapa FM has reported.

Meanwhile, Assemblyman for Gomoa Ankamu-Simbrofo Electoral area, Isaac Kelly Arthur in an interview expressed worry over the increasing number of such crimes in the area.

“What the armed robbers do is that when they see a new taxi cab, they hire and direct the driver towards a bushy area and try to kill the driver and take the car away. The Police patrol in this area must be stepped up to prevent such crimes from being committed.”

It is the second time in a month a taxi driver has been killed with the same modus operandi.

On April 25, a 20-year-old taxi driver at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region, who was hired by a car-snatching syndicate from Ashaiman to Dawhenya, was gruesomely murdered.

The lifeless body of the taxi driver, Emmanuel Bioh, was found with bullet wounds in a bush at Aveyime in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region without the car.