Tag Archives: ARREST

Police in Accra have arrested 26 supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress who protested at the headquarters of the Electoral on Thursday. The supporters were protesting the results of the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary polls which saw President Akufo-Addo retaining the presidency with some 51% of the valid votes. …

The District Chief Executive for Ajumako Enyan Essiam District, Emmanuel Ransford Kwesi Nyarko has been arrested by the Central Regional Police Command for leading thugs numbering about 15 to assault a police officer at Ajumako Ocheso. According to DSP Irene Oppong the Central Regional Police PRO said, on December 2, …

The man who snatched a ballot box in the Sene West constituency in the Bono East Region on Election Day, 7 December 2020, has been convicted by a court. Thirty-nine-year-old Christian Nukpeta is to spend three months in jail. He has also been banned from registering and voting in any …

Richard Ibrahim Adamu, a driver, who allegedly took two taxis from two of his colleagues to transport his clients but ended up selling them has been put before an Accra Circuit Court. With him in the dock are Alhassan Kamal, a Scrap dealer, who received the two taxis as scraps …

Eleven (11) suspects have been arrested in connection with the burning of the Electoral Commission Offices at Fomena in the Ashanti Region. Police retrieved among other items two foreign made pistols, a number of machetes and gallons of petrol used in the operations by the hoodlums who were transported to …

Incumbent MP for Odododiodoo constituency Nii Lante Vanderpuije has been arrested as part of a joint military-police operation. The lawmaker and parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the NDC was picked up alongside his wife, daughter and about fifteen other men who were with him over alleged shootings in the …

The ruling New Patriotic Party has denied claims that its Ashanti regional Chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi has been arrested over electoral malpractices. A video on circulation on social media suggests the maverick politician has been picked up by the police for printing ballot papers. However, …

Police in the Central Region says their intelligence has led to the arrest of three men in a hotel at Ajumako Essiam, who were found carrying pistols loaded with seven rounds of ammunition. Suspect Raymond Quarshie and his two accomplices also possessed military camouflage dress, military boot, desert boot, three …

The Central Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has arrested three armed men in a hotel at Ajumako-Essiam. According to the police, the arrest was as a result of intelligence gathered. The suspects were found carrying pistols loaded with seven rounds of ammunition. They also possessed military camouflage …

Richford Joe Lartey, unemployed, who was grabbed by the Police while trying to escape with a stolen vehicle has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Accused of causing unlawful damage to the complainant’s vehicle, the court ordered Lartey to pay a fine of GHS 9,600 …