Two held for stealing a gun

Kumasi, Jan 28, GNA - The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Court has remanded two persons into prison custody for allegedly stealing a single-barrelled short-gun belonging to a fetish priest. Kwasi Ofori, 22, and Abdulai Musah, 43, both unemployed are charged wit= h conspiracy, stealing, causing unlawful damage, carrying offensive weapon an= d possessing firearm without authority. They would re-appear on February 28. One other person known only as Boakye, a driver, is on the run. Police Chief Inspector Isaac Mensah-Appenteng told the court presided over by Mr Justice William Boampong that on April 30, last year, some polic= e officers were on routine motor check at the Trede Junction on the Kumasi-Bekwai highway when they saw a speeding taxi cab join the highway from a branch road. They signalled the driver to stop and when the car pulled up they found a cutlass, hammer, hacksaw and a single-barrelled shot-gun in it. Ofori and Musah were arrested but Boakye escaped as he sped off in the taxi-cab. He said during police investigations, it came out that the accused persons broke into the room of Okomfo Kofi Tawiah, a fetish priest at Duampompo near Ejisu ,and stole the gun.

Kumasi, Jan 28, GNA - The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Court has remanded two persons into prison custody for allegedly stealing a single-barrelled short-gun belonging to a fetish priest. Kwasi Ofori, 22, and Abdulai Musah, 43, both unemployed are charged wit= h conspiracy, stealing, causing unlawful damage, carrying offensive weapon an= d possessing firearm without authority. They would re-appear on February 28. One other person known only as Boakye, a driver, is on the run. Police Chief Inspector Isaac Mensah-Appenteng told the court presided over by Mr Justice William Boampong that on April 30, last year, some polic= e officers were on routine motor check at the Trede Junction on the Kumasi-Bekwai highway when they saw a speeding taxi cab join the highway from a branch road. They signalled the driver to stop and when the car pulled up they found a cutlass, hammer, hacksaw and a single-barrelled shot-gun in it. Ofori and Musah were arrested but Boakye escaped as he sped off in the taxi-cab. He said during police investigations, it came out that the accused persons broke into the room of Okomfo Kofi Tawiah, a fetish priest at Duampompo near Ejisu ,and stole the gun.