- Police arrest Victor Biney, alias Abeiku, long on the wanted list for regional robberies
- Seven masked and armed men attacked miners and stole gold concentrate and phones
- Search at suspect’s shrine uncovered weapons, smocks, cartridges, and stolen items
The Western North Regional Police Command has arrested a man suspected of orchestrating a violent robbery at a mining site near Sefwi Antobia in the Juaboso District.
According to a statement shared by the Ghana Police Service on Facebook, the suspect, Victor Biney, also known as Abeiku, was apprehended on Monday, November 17, 2025. He had been on the police wanted list for his alleged involvement in several robbery incidents across the region.
His arrest followed a report that seven armed, masked men had invaded the mining site, attacked workers with cutlasses, and escaped with quantities of gold concentrate and several mobile phones. Witnesses said three of the robbers wore distinctive smocks—one decorated with talismans—while another was dressed in a military-style shirt.
A search conducted at Biney’s shrine in Attakrom led to the discovery of a military camouflage shirt, handcuffs, two cutlasses, a single-barrel gun, several flashlights, seventeen AAA live cartridges, multiple smocks, mercury, traces of gold concentrate, and the butt of a pump-action gun. Police suspect these items are connected to the robbery.
At the station, Biney reportedly admitted to owning several of the items recovered. The victims later identified some of the flashlights, the mercury, the gold concentrate, and three of the smocks as property stolen during the attack.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the gang, armed with pump-action and single-barrel guns, brutally assaulted the miners before escaping with the stolen goods.
