Fire Service, Police Storm Hotel at Lapaz to Arrest Gang Recruiting Personnel

Fire Service, Police Storm Hotel at Lapaz to Arrest Gang Recruiting Personnel

  • The Intelligence Unit of the Ghana National Fire Service, GNFS, and the Ghanaian Police Service, GPS, have arrested a group of fraudsters
  • The gang was purporting to be recruiting unsuspecting people into the GNFS at the Day and Night Hotel at Abeka Lapaz, Accra
  • The joint operation led to the arrest of 10 of the gang members who have been sent to the Police Headquarters

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The Intelligence Unit of the Ghana National Fire Service, GNFS, and the Ghanaian Police Service, GPS, stormed an Accra hotel to arrest a group of fraudsters purporting to be recruiting the unsuspecting public into the GNFS.

The joint operation led by the GNFS, with support from armed plain cloth police personnel, stormed the Day and Night Hotel at Abeka Lapaz behind Extra O in Accra to interrupt the recruiting process.

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Fire Service, Police arrest gang recruiting personnel
Fire Service, Police Storm Hotel at Lapaz to Arrest Gang Recruiting Personnel Photo credit: Fire Service
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In a Facebook post accompanied by a video, the GNFS noted that hundreds of prospective applicants had paid various sums of monies to the imposters.

The recruitment exercise had started early morning on Friday, January 14, 2022, at the said hotel.

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Personnel from the Intelligence Unit of the Ghana National Fire Service and Ghanaian Police Service arrested 10 of the gang members during the raid and sent them to the Police Headquarters for further interrogation.

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.