HIGHWAY robbers took away more than one million dollars worth of gold when they ambushed a bullion van transporting the precious metal to Accra, Ghana its owner, Resolute Amansie Limited said on Thursday. The head of the company’s risks management unit, William Usmer, said the gold weighing 170kg was being conveyed from the company’s mine at Obotan in Ashanti to the Kotoka International Airport when the robbery occurred. The robbery is said to be the first of its kind in the country, as well as the first in the history of RAL which was officially commissioned by President Jerry Rawlings in February 1998.