According to reports, three companions were arrested by police as they attempted to engage in Mobile Money fraud using phony currency in Obuasi, Ashanti Region.
Nancy Owusu, 28, Eunice Sarfo, 33, and Cecilia Agyemang, 29, who were nearly lynched by irate residents, were rescued and taken into lawful custody by the assemblyman for the area with the help of armed police.
According to the police situational report, the three ladies reached Sanso, a town near Obuasi, during the weekend and were transacting MTN money transfers using bogus currency.
They were arrested, however, and held in Nana Akwasi Agyeman’s room for safekeeping, while the town’s residents, numbering in the hundreds, threatened to lynch them.
The Obuasi West patrol squad, led by ASP Duke Amoo, headed to the town, but residents blocked police from bringing out the accused.
The Obuasi East patrol squad was dispatched to assist, but the town’s reaction to seeing police grew, with some residents throwing various objects at officers and their vehicles.
The squad retreated and asked Nana Akwasi Agyeman, the town’s Sanaahene, to detain the suspects in his room and contact police when the number of town residents had decreased, while police sought shelter at a vantage point viewing the scenario from afar.
Later, with the help of the police, Thomas Ofori, the area’s Assemblyman, Nana Akwasi Agyeman, Sanaahene, and Solomon Obeng, all of Sanso, were able to pull the suspects out into a taxi and a private car and escor them to the station.