Kwame Ato Asare Ani, a man declared wanted by the Ghana Police Service has spoken from a hideout explaining a circumstances under which he was captured in a standoff with some police officers.
According to him, he is not an armed robber as described by the Ghana Police Service but rather an informant to the police in the Axim area.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Kevin Taylor on his Loud Silence TV, Ani said he has over the period of one year been working with the police as an informant and a liaison between the police and some illegal miners in the area.
He stated that aside collecting money from illegal miners on behalf of the police, he and his gang has also been providing security and fighting criminals in the area with the support and approval of the police.
But addressing the circumstance leading to his fallout with the police, Kwame Ani said he received a payment of GHC100,000.00 from some illegal miners but failed to deliver the money to the police after he felt being cheated by the police in previous deals.
“The people in the town I live in all know that I work with the police. Police officers troop to my house at least five times in a day just to come and receive monies. Sometimes they don’t leave if they don’t see me. I give them money all the time.
“The actual reason the police are after me is that they sent me to collect one billion (GH₵100,000.00) from a site at Kwakukrom but I refused to hand over the money to them. That is the reason why they are angry with me.
“I didn’t give the money because I felt cheated after working with them all this while. They were only giving me small sums of thousand or two thousand every time…
“It is because of the one billion I took and failed to give to them that they are accusing me of being a robber. But I am not an armed robber, nobody can prove that I have ever robbed their site. Sarfo (Axim Police Commander) told me to bring the one billion before they will release my car and other machines which they have seized,” he said.