The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) on Monday led armed soldiers to Prampram and conducted a thorough search in the house of Mr Enoch Teye Mensah, Member of Parliament for Ningo/Prampram, who was arrested last Saturday.
Mr Daniel S. P. Adjei, Vice-Chairman of Ningo/Prampram constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who disclosed this to the GNA at Prampram said the 12 soldiers, who accompanied the BNI and Mr Mensah himself, used metal detectors to test the walls of the house.
They also used shovels to excavate some portions of the green grass at the frontage and used the instrument to check whether some items have been buried under the grass but nothing was found.
Mr Adjei said when the security agents arrived around 09:00 hours in the morning, people in the town rushed to the house, but the gates were closed quickly by the soldiers. The NDC supporters, however, remained there and chanted party slogans and songs.
He said the security agents spent a little over an hour in the search. They left with Mr Mensah, the former Minster for Youth and Sports and NDC's National Youth Organiser, adding that a similar exercise had been conducted in his house in Accra on Sunday, May 13 in the presence of his wife Vida.
Mr Mensah is being held by the BNI over his alleged involvement in riots by some youth of Nima on May 11 after the burial of Muslim victims of the Accra Sports Stadium disaster, in which 126 football fans were killed in a stampede.
