Police seize AK47s, pump action gun

Police in the Ashanti Region have retrieved two AK47 rifles with over 30 rounds of ammunition in Ejisu and Asokwa.

This happened on Monday June 27 after the police had paraded some 10 suspected armed robbers, two of them women believed to be terrorising the residents of Kumasi and its environs, at the regional police headquarters.

Class News’ Ashanti regional correspondent Hafiz Tijani reported that some of the suspects have confessed to robbing some cement dealers and fuel stations in the region.

According to Hafiz, exhibits retrieved from the suspect include a pump action gun, two AK47 rifles, a plasma television, sledgehammer, a dagger, a knife, and a generator.

The police have also arrested a man in his 40s believed to be supplying the robbers with the ammunitions.

Meanwhile, a security analyst and executive director of the Ghana Institute of Governance and Security, David Agbey, has described the spate of crime in the region as worrying.

Speaking to Class News on Monday June 27, Mr Agbey said: “I think that we all need to be worried about some of these incidents going on in the Ashanti Region. It is becoming more rampant and security intelligence need to strengthen its network to be able to arrest the situation.

It is quite not a good signal at all, it is becoming too often. ... It looks as if the armed robbers and people of bad character are trying to take over Kumasi and I must say that the current IGP, John Kudalor, and his men need to … try as much as possible to intensify security activities in the Ashanti Region