About 30 armed policemen and five BNI officials from Tema, who went to Dawhenya on Tuesday upon a tip-off to retrieve arms and ammunition from the room of an NDC functionary found only an old rusty shotgun.
The police, led by Superintendent Victor Adetor arrived at Dawhenya, searched the house of Mr Robert Nii Charway, NDC youth organiser for the town, and found the old shotgun.
Mr Patrick Addico, a farmer, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Dawhenya that on their arrival, the police wanted the youth organiser but they were told that he had travelled.
They asked for the Assemblyman for the area and they were told he had also travelled.
He said Mr Adetor then ordered that he (Addico) who is a brother of the Assemblyman should stand in and help the police to search the room of Mr Charway, who they alleged had arms and ammunition kept in the room.
Mr Addico said the police ordered him to force open the door but he refused.
Mr Adetor then ordered that the window be forcibly opened and when this was done some policemen entered the room through the window and retrieved a rusty old shotgun and some NDC posters.
After that they searched four other rooms in the house but found nothing.
When Mr Charway returned he told the GNA that he had not been feeling well so he travelled to Adawso in the Eastern Region where his sister lives on Friday March 28.
He said he found that his room had been searched and One million cedis in a cupboard was intact but another 1.5 million cedis that was hidden under his bed had been stolen.
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mrs Agnes Sikanartey, Tema Regional Police Commander, told the GNA that the security agencies had information that some people had brought arms and ammunition by canoe and had stored them in a room at Dawhenya.
She said a directive was given to Supt Adetor of Railways and Ports police to move his men in the company of BNI to conduct the search and retrieve the weapons.
