70 Suspects Arrested In Police Swoop

A total of 70 suspected criminals including seven women believed to be prostitutes have been arrested in a dawn swoop at Aflao. Those arrested in the operation, which was mounted by a joint police and military team, include 55 Ghanaians, three Ivoirians, a Sierra Leonean and four other West African nationals. All the suspects have been placed in police custody.

Three men and a woman in whose possession dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp were found will be arraigned before court on Monday, while the rest would be screened and an identification parade held. Al-Hajj Ismail Saakah, Superintendent of Police in charge of Keta Division says most of the people arrested could not show their places of residence and were living in make shift shacks.

He said the exercise was to make Aflao an unsafe place for criminals who might be running away from the police operations in Accra. In a similar operation at Ho, a total of seven suspects all men between the ages of 20 and 45 years were arrested.