AS PART of efforts to curb criminal incidents at Kubekro and Atadeka within the Kpone-Katamanso District in the Greater Accra Region, Ashaiman Divisional Police personnel have arrested two suspected criminals for illegal possession of firearms.
The culprits, Alex Agbedubu, a 20-year-old mechanic apprentice and his girlfriend, Sala Mohammed, an 18-year-old unemployed; had in their custody a pump action gun with sixteen live cartridges and a French made automatic pistol with 47 rounds of ammunitions.
Sala and Alex were reported to have been apprehended in a wooden kiosk at Newland, Katamanso, following an operation mounted by the Divisional Police Command to curtail criminal activities in that area and beyond.
The police also retrieved two Honda portable generators and 32-inches plasma television believed to have been stolen from the same wooden kiosk.
Chief Superintendent David Eklu, Ashaiman Divisional Police Commander told DAILY GUIDE that on July 15, 2013, his outfit personnel mounted a search in that area and apprehended the suspects who were keeping the weapons which police suspected they used for robbery.
According to him, the suspects during interrogation failed to disclose to police where they got the weapons suspected to be part of the criminals terrorizing residents of Kubekro and its surrounding communities.
He said the suspects would be arraigned before a Court for possessing firearm and ammunition without lawful authority. He assured the residents of maximum police protection to ensure their businesses went on safely.
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