Jail break in Ghana, eight on the run

  1. Posted on Monday 3 May 2010 - 15:00
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    Joseph Appiah-Dolphyne, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    Eight convicted prisoners of the Sekondi Prisons in Ghana broke jail on Sunday. The prisoners took two prison officers who were on guard duties at the prisons gates hostage, stabbed them several times with knives and knocked open the prisons armoury, making away with seven G3 riffles with ten rounds of ammunition.
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    Three of the jail breakers; Ebenezer Tetteh, Rafael Laweh and Rafael Bouro, a Nigerian are known to be armed robbers whose attempt to rob a bullion van at Gura Banso in the Western Region of that country was foiled by police and were convicted to serve a prison sentence of 40 years each.

    The three after their conviction and sentence, are said to have retorted that they would not spend a year in the four walls of the prisons.
    Prisons officials say, a young man came to the prisons under the guise of coming to visit the three convicts.

    When they were called to receive the food the “visitor” had brought they suddenly took hostage of the prisons officers at knife point, stabbing them in their back to subdue them.

    They forced the prisons armoury open and started sharing the G3 guns to the convicts who had made it through the first gate of the prison.

    Ten of them made it outside the prison walls but two were later arrested because they could not get onboard an urvan bus that was to be their getaway vehicle, according to myjoyonline.

    Meanwhile personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces, the Police, Navy and the Prisons officers are patrolling the city to find the Jail breakers.

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