Two arrested with pistols

The Daily Graphic reports that a combined team of military and policemen on night patrol in the Kumasi metropolis on Thursday night,

Arrested two men with locally-made pistols, knife and ammunition, at Asem and Moshie Zongo. The two, named as Atango Tongo and Iddrisu Bukari, are said to be in police custody pending further investigations.

The paper says Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Richard Baduweh, in charge of Police Public Relations in the Ashanti Region, disclosed this in an interview and said Tongo was arrested near the Anglican School at Asem while he was waiting, obviously to attack and rob unsuspecting people. Mr Baduweh said when Tongo was searched, a local-made pistol and an ?Okapi? knife were found on him. Bukari, he said, was picked up near some parked vehicles at Moshie Zongo in the night, and when interrogated, he told the police he was a watchman but nobody in the vicinity knew him. Bukari is said to have claimed that a man called "Together", who is currently out of Ghana, provided him with the pistol and the ammunition to guard his property for him.

The Graphic meanwhile says pubic response to the military-cum-police operations to flush out armed robbers and other criminals from the metropolis, has been very encouraging so far.