Student arrested with police pistol

Page 14: Daily Graphic, September 11, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
AN 18-year-old student has been arrested by the police for attempting to sell a pistol belonging to the Ghana Police Service.
Solomon Konadu was arrested at Accra New Town, while waiting for the prospective buyer.
At the time of filing this report, the police in Accra were getting in touch with their Brong Ahafo Regional counterparts to identify the source of the pistol with registration number 189966.
The Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Christian Tetteh Yohuno told the Daily Graphic yesterday that after his arrest, Solomon told the police that he brought the pistol from Sunyani, where he was based.
He said the suspect claimed that he found the pistol in the drawer of a table he collected from a deceased man’s house.
According to him, Solomon said he decided to sell it because he did not need it.
In a related development, ACP Yohuno said a team of police and military personnel had retrieved five pistols, a toy gun, nine rounds of ammunition and a bottle containing red substance suspected to be alcohol.
He said three persons suspected to be an armed robbery gang, however, managed to escape while a taxi driver, Kojo Anthony, in whose car the suspects were, has been arrested.
He said a snap check team mounted on the Ring Road West, opposite the premises of State Housing Company, spotted the taxi approaching around 12:25 am and asked the driver to stop.
ACP Yohuno said the occupants of the vehicle reluctantly got down from the vehicle when they were asked to. He said when one of them came out with a black handbag, he was asked to discharge its contents for inspection.
According to him, the person threw the bag at the policeman and jumped across the road, scaled the Awudome Cemetery and escaped with the other two.
He said before the other security members could get close, they had all scaled the wall of the cemetery.
ACP Yohuno said the driver could, however, not escape and he was subsequently arrested.