Kumasi: Police impound weapons on bus

Police in Kumasi have intercepted some weapons being smuggled aboard a Metro Mass bus en route to Tamale. According to Joy FM's Ashanti regional correspondent, Elton John Brobby, the impounded bus with registration number AS 6810 Z was traveling to Tamale from Osino in the Eastern region. According to Elton John, the driver of the vehicle said the bus stopped at the Ashanti regional office of the Metro Mass at Abrebo to refuel. He narrated that whiles refueling, some bus attendants at the local station decided to offload goods from the cargo compartment on the bus and they were prevented from doing so by some passengers aboard. This led to heated exchanges between the two parties. The bus attendants, suspecting foul play, forced and opened the said cargo and discovered some locally manufactured long range guns, and some machetes at the cargo section of the bus, Elton reported. The police were then called to the scene where they arrested about ten occupants of the bus who claimed ownership of the items and intercepted the bus as well. The suspects are being kept at the Ashanti Regional Headquarters. The suspects claimed that the guns numbering fifty could only be fired using gun powder and added they were used at a funeral they were returning from. The police however dismissed their claims and insisted they will have to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter.