'WEE' SUSPECTS BRIBE POLICE WITH GHC 10, 000

-


Police personnel retrieving the parcels from the tanker
The Police in the Ashanti region have intercepted a water tanker that contained a large quantity of substances believed to be Indian hemp. 

Two persons have also been arrested and are currently in the custody of the Kumasi Central Police helping with Police investigations to unravel all the circumstances surrounding the concealment and movement of the suspected narcotic substances from Kwame Danso in the Brong Ahafo region with Kumasi as the final destination.

 The Police personnel who effected the arrest are said to have been offered a 10 thousand Ghana Cedi bribe by the suspects to set them free. 

The two persons in police custody are Alex Kwabena Nuhu, driver of the water tanker that was being used to transport the substances and a suspected accomplice, Martin Gyamfi. 

The suspected Indian hemp retrieved from the car
The seized contraband goods, with an unquantified street valued, are made up of nearly 500 slabs and a number of sacks containing the suspected Indian hemp and concealed in the water tanker to outwit the security operatives.

 The substances will later be sent to the police forensic laboratory for confirmation to aid prosecution of the suspects. 

Addressing journalists in Kumasi about the arrest and other similar arrests, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCoP, Nathan Kofi Boakye explained that the Police Patrol 




Team intercepted the vehicle at about 2 am today, Thursday August 6, 2015. 

This followed a tip-off and when a search was conducted on the vehicle, the consignment was discovered. 

DCoP Kofi Boakye said the 10 thousand Ghana Cedi cash offered as bribe after the arrest is with the   Police and would be used as exhibit during prosecution of the matter. 

Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Police Command has mounted several police operations and swoops that have already led to the arrest of about a hundred suspects believed to be involved in various nefarious activities and terrorizing residents in the region, particularly the capital, Kumasi.

 The suspects include those believed to have taken part in certain murder cases, car snatching syndicate as well as pick-pocketing around the Kejetia lorry terminal. 

The Regional Commander, DCoP Kofi Boakye told newsmen that for those suspected to be pick-pockets around Kejetia, their biometric features such as finger prints and photographs will be compiled in an album to help the Police in their future criminals identification.
    

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

JUTE FACTORY IS BACK

-
Image
the administrative block under rehabilitation At long last, the much talked about defunct GIHOC Fibre manufacturing Company popularly known as the Jute Factory, is to be back in operations very soon.  Ashanti Today can confirm that work is feverishly ongoing towards the revival of the once golden sacks manufacturing company with the first production expected in the first quarter of next year.  It is a public-private partnership with a wholly Ghanaian company, Jute Mills Ghana Limited being the operator and has already sunk about five million Ghana Cedis to revamp the company.  The Jute Factory is located within the industrial area of Kaase.  It has been on divestiture for about 20 years now with successive governments paying lip-service to revamp it.   The old machinery at main factory to be replaced soon  It is one project that is dear to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who has used almost every opportunity with business people and investors wh
Read more

THE STATE OF KUMASI'S 'INDUSTRIAL AREA

-
The once Industrial enclave of the Ashanti region within the Kumasi metropolis is fast losing its status as the nerve centre of jobs for the people.     This is due to the collapse of most of the companies in quick succession in  the last few years for various reasons. Background Industrialization was a key component of the first wholly indigenous government of Ghana led by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The Ashanti region was not left out in this drive which was meant to create decent jobs for the residents, particularly the youth.  Asokwa, Ahinsan, Kaase, Atonsu and Kyirapatre were the communities that became what is known as the ‘Industrial Area’ of Ashanti from the early 60s.  The christening of this enclave as the ‘Industrial Area’ was the people’s appreciation of the numerous state and privately owned companies that were sited there.  These communities fall within present day Asokwa Constituency which is in the western part of the metropolis from the Accra d
Read more

KWAMANG SHS NEEDS URGENT HELP

-
Image
New Campus of the Kwamang Presby SHS The Kwamang Presby Senior High/Technical School in the Sekyere Central district of Ashanti needs an urgent external intervention to address some of its pressing basic needs to function very well.  A visit by Ashanti Today to the school’s premises revealed that the school does not have an administrative block to administer affairs of the school for which reason the Headmistress, the Bursar and another staff are sharing one room which has been partitioned, while the Assistant Headmaster, the rest of the Accounts staff among other administrative officers are also working from an improvised classroom. Anybody who visits the Kwamang Presby Senior High Technical school for the first time will unavoidably take it for a basic school.  This is more so when it appears to be perching on the premises of the local Junior High School as its old site.  The school is wallowing in a myriad of challenges that are seriously militating against
Read more