ARMED ROBBERS ATTACK DOCTOR, WOUND WATCHMAN (PAGE 20)

SIX suspected armed robbers in the early hours of last Sunday broke into the official residence of Dr Kafui Setsoafia, the Medical Superintendent of the Atua Government Hospital at Odumase-Krobo, and took away a number of personal belongings and GH¢350.
Dr Setsoafia sustained injuries in one eye while his watchman, Abel Kwao, was also injured on different parts of the body and bled profusely from the nostrils as a result of the severe beatings by the robbers.
They were both treated and discharged at the same hospital.
So far nobody has been arrested in connection with the robbery.
A distraught Dr Setsoafia told the Daily Graphic at his residence shortly after the incident that the robbers, who were armed with guns and machetes, surrounded his premises at exactly 12.50 a.m.
He said he heard Mr Kwao shouting to alert him of the presence of the robbers so he looked through one of the windows where he saw the robbers molesting the watchman.
Dr Setsoafia stated that the robbers after subduing the watchman who was hit on his head with an iron rod and was bleeding profusely from the nostrils, positioned two members of the gang behind the house while the remaining four entered one of the rooms after they had used a cement block to break the main door.
According to the medical doctor, the robbers ordered him to bring out a box in his room which they believed contained dollars and jewels as well as a laptop.
He stated that when he brought out the box but could not immediately find its key, the robbers used the flat side of a machete to hit him on the back after which they punched him in the left eye.
Dr Setsoafia said the robbers stopped molesting him after he had given them the key and that in all, they took away three mobile phones, two wrist watches, a wedding ring and GH¢350 belonging to him and his wife, Theodora, who was hiding in one of the rooms.
He said Theodora was spared the ordeal because he told the robbers that she was not around.
When contacted on the issue, the officer in charge of the Odumase-Krobo Police Station, Chief Inspector Douglas Badjie, confirmed the robbery.
He stated that although he led policemen to the scene immediately he had a phone call, the robbers went away before they arrived there.
He said investigations were ongoing to apprehend the robbers.