Three arrested for possessing arms

The Brong Ahafo Regional Police Command has arrested three people at Portor, a community in the Kintampo municipality, for possessing arms and ammunition without authority.

They are 69-year-old Sumaila Jabuni; Rauf Samed, 18, and a woman, Kande Bawa, whose age was not provided by the police.

Tip-off

The Brong Ahafo Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Christopher Tawiah, told the Daily Graphic that the police had a tip-off that some people at Portor had a cache of arms and ammunition which they intended using.

According to him, based on that information, the police, on June 30, 2016, conducted a random search in the community and, in the course of it, retrieved two AK 47 assault rifles and 200 bullets from Kande’s room.

A search in a room, occupied by Jabuni and Samed in another house, also led to the retrieval of two single-barrelled guns and eight cartridges.

Remand

The three were, consequently, arrested and sent to the Brong Ahafo Regional Police Headquarters for further investigations.

The suspects appeared before a Sunyani Magistrate’s Court yesterday and were charged with possession of arms and ammunition without lawful authority and remanded in police custody to reappear on Friday, July 8, 2016.

Chieftaincy conflict

A number of people have either died or got injured from a series of chieftaincy conflicts at Portor.

The latest conflict heppened early this year,  which required security beef-up in the town.

As a result of the conflict, schools were closed down and there was shortage of food because people in the area were afraid to go to their farms to harvest crops.