An eyewitness has given a detailed account of how three suspected armed robbers were murdered.

The incident that led to the death of a small-scale miner and the subsequentburning of three armed robbers at Moseaso in the Wassa Amenffi WestMunicipality keeps community folks thinking.

The incident happened on Sunday morning April 16, 2023 where the three-armedrobbers gunned down a worker of a small-scale mining company in the areaduring an operation at a galamsey site.

Community folks heard of the gunshot, went to the scene and realized acommunity member, Frank Arthur was gunned down.

The news of the incident quickly spread throughout the town, and the communitywas outraged. They mobilized and launched a manhunt for the robbers. After anintense search, they managed to apprehend three out of the four suspects.

However, instead of turning the suspects over to the authorities, the communitymembers decided to take matters into their own hands and set the robbersablaze.

According to an eyewitness who was part of the robbery victims, who gave hisname as Tikwaa, said they were returning from site with gold “when we got to acurve, we realized they had raised a barrier on the road and two out of four whowere wielding guns started shooting into our car. We were in the car but Arthurwas in the bucket of the car so he sustained gunshot wounds, without ourknowledge".

“We were ordered out of the car and buried our faces on the ground. So theywent in to take the black(gold) from the car. As they were about to move, theytold us that one of our brothers was shot so we should take him to the hospital,so we took him into the car to the Moseaso clinic”, he added.

Speaking to Ghanaweb in an interview, the owner of the small scale mining site Mr. Richard Adjei said Francis Arthur, 51 was his senior brother and the care taker of the site adding that, “because of my tight schedules, Arthur has been taking care of the site for me ever since we started operations”.

On that fateful day, Mr. Adjei said he went to see his brother in the morning to inform him that soldiers will be coming to site so they should go to the site and bring the “black” home.

"I was in the washroom few minutes after that when I received a called that Arthur had been shot so I quickly moved my car to the clinic where they were sending him for treatment and but when I got there, I realized they were sending him to the Asankragwaa Catholic Hospital rather, so I followed up. On our way to the hospital, we met a group of soldiers who also delayed for about thirty minutes, so Frank Arthur was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital".

According to Mr. Adjei, robbery incident has been very rampant in the Moseasocommunity. These robbers are a group made up of indigenes of Moseaso and Dunkwa in the Central Region. Those who have been burnt were part of six robbers who were imprisoned for three years, came back and are still in the robbery business.

He added that, “one the burnt robbers robbed somebody of his money twomonths ago, he was arrested by police and bailed, and is till robbing"