In a special police operation conducted between the night of 7th September and the dawn of 8th September, 5 Chinese suspects were arrested for their possible involvement in the missing excavators saga at Ellembelle.
The arrest was made Shortly after retrieving one of the excavators that went missing.
A team of operations and intelligence officers found the missing excavator several kilometres in a forest within the Ellembelle district.
The team of police officers who were accompanying the relocation of the excavator to Takoradi were allegedly attacked by Mr. Kwasi Bonzo, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Ellembelle, and his team of thugs.
The DCE and three others have since been arrested.
According to the police, they are continuing their investigations in an effort to recover the other excavator and arrest all of the suspects involved.
