Fatal Robbery on Berekum Chelsea Team Bus Claims Player's Life
The bus carrying Berekum Chelsea’s players should have been winding through the dark in routine silence, the kind that follows a hard Ghana Premier League game. Instead, it became the scene of a fatal robbery that cost midfielder Dominic Frimpong his life and has now triggered a nationwide manhunt.
Police have confirmed that three men are on the run after the attack on the club’s team bus, which was ambushed as the squad travelled home from a league fixture against Samartex FC 1996. The Ghana Police Service has named the wanted suspects only as Dauda, Huefe and A.T., believed to be part of the gang that struck the vehicle and left Frimpong dead.
Two alleged members of that gang are already in custody. The Ashanti Regional Police Command arrested 25-year-old Mohammed Ahmed, identified by investigators as the ringleader, and 30-year-old Gideon Bawa during an operation at Atimatim in Kumasi on April 15, 2026.
It was not a quiet arrest.
According to the police, Ahmed and Bawa tried to bolt and opened fire when officers closed in. An intelligence-led team from the Ashanti South Police Command, backed by the Police Intelligence Directorate Headquarters, the Anti-Robbery Unit and the CID Headquarters, returned fire and subdued the pair.
What officers found next underlined the scale of the operation they were dealing with.
From the scene, they recovered a pistol loaded with two rounds of .32 ammunition, eleven BB cartridges, a locally made weapon described as a “blantine”, pepper spray, desert boots, assorted mobile phones and a black pullover. The haul matched the profile of a group ready to hit again.
Under interrogation, Ahmed admitted taking part in the attack on the Berekum Chelsea bus, police say. He also linked himself to other robberies, including incidents at Nkawie and an assault on a mobile money vendor at Fufuso. It was during questioning that he named Dauda, Huefe and A.T. as his accomplices, the men now being hunted across the country.
Ahmed is currently under treatment at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, guarded by police. Bawa remains in custody, assisting detectives as they try to piece together the full picture of the night Frimpong lost his life.
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has appealed to the public for information that could lead to the arrest of the remaining suspects, urging anyone with knowledge of their whereabouts to come forward. Officers involved in the Atimatim operation have been praised internally for their response and restraint in a volatile confrontation.
For Berekum Chelsea, the pain stretches well beyond the league table. A player has been killed on the road home from a match. A team bus, usually a place of banter and recovery, has become evidence in a murder and robbery investigation.
Police insist the case will not drift. They have vowed to track down every man linked to the ambush and put them before the courts to face the full rigours of the law.
The question now is how quickly they can deliver justice for Dominic Frimpong and a shaken Ghanaian football community.
