THE Ho police have arrested a 24-year-old blacksmith, Eric Adjei, for possessing four pistols and ammunition with which he was travelling to Accra.
When the vehicle stopped at the Have police barrier at about 11 a.m., the police personnel on duty who had had a tip-off about Adjei’s illegal business, searched him and found two Italian and two locally made pistols, as well as four rounds of ammunition in the smock and jeans he was wearing.
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) David Nenyi Ampah Bennin, the Volta Regional Police Commander, Adjei claimed that he was sending the pistols to one Cosmos Owusu Mawuse, 37, a dealer in small arms at Adenta in Accra who gave the weapons to him for repairs.
He said Adjei, therefore, led the police to Adenta but Mawuse could not be seen.
ACP Ampah Bennin said when Adjei called Mawuse on his cellphone, he denied any knowledge of the weapons and ammunition.
He said when the police invited Mawuse to the Ho Police Station, he agreed to do so the following day.
ACP Ampah Bennin said when Mawuse was interrogated the next day, it came to light that he had a case to answer, since he was a dealer in arms at a shop known as “Cosmos Small Arms Repairs Shop”.
The two have been remanded in police custody pending further investigations into the matter.
The regional commander seized the opportunity to send a strong warning to the illegal arms dealers that the police would not sit aloof for the region to be used as a conduit for arms trafficking, especially to troubled spots.
He cautioned that anybody caught illegally possessing or manufacturing weapons would be dealt with according to the laws of the land.
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