Police grab 4 men in Ashanti for supplying guns to robbers

he Ashanti Regional Police Command has in separate operations arrested four men suspected to be supplying guns to armed robbers. They were found in possession of some guns and tools believed to have been used for the manufacture of some of the guns.

In the first instance, the police arrested two persons, Kwasi David and Kwabena Acheampong, from whom the police retrieved five locally made pistols and seven single-barrelled guns.

The police also retrieved tools from the suspects believed to have been used for the manufacture of the arms. They included two hand and three drilling machines, 10 metal files, three saw blades and two metal patterns of the butt of a single-barrelled gun.


In the second operation, the police arrested two other suspects, Bawa Salis and Kafui Adams, for supplying guns to robbers in the Obuasi Municipality.

A submachine gun, with 12 rounds of ammunition, which according to the police is used by the military and five mobile phones were retrieved from Salis and Adams.

At a press briefing in Kumasi yesterday, the Ashanti Regional Commander of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Nathan Kofi Boakye, said the police believed that the suspects arrested in the first operation had been supplying guns to armed robbers in the metropolis.