Adaklu Abuadi (V/R), Dec. 10, GNA- The Police, on Friday arrested three people at Adaklu Abuadi for firing gunshots during the Adaklu Anyigbe District's National Farmers Day celebration.

Mr. Joseph Kutu, Superintendent of Police in charge of the Ho Municipality who led about 100 police personnel including Mr. Benard Dery, Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Volta region, deployed to Abuadi to keep law and order, confirmed the arrest to the Ghana News Agency (GNA).

Mr Kutu declined to disclose the names of the suspects for security reasons but said when they were apprehended for firing gunshots about 200 metres away from the venue of the celebration, two single barrel guns and six live ammunitions were found on them. He said the heavy security presence made up of the police and a few soldiers was due to information that some people were allegedly planning to disrupt the programme.

Mr. Mawuli Kwame Dabi, the District Chief Executive, called for peace among the people to move the district forward. He reminded the people that there could not be meaningful development in the are if they lived in hatred, anarchy and chaos. Mr. Dabi said the district was gaining an enviable popularity in the production of tomatoes and appealed to investors to establish a tomato-processing factory in the area.

Togbe Gbogbi Atsa V, the Paramount Chief of Adaklu Traditional Area, called on all peace loving citizens from the area to ignore his purported destoolment adding "for posterity sake let us all bury our hatchet and unite to move the district forward." He said the area had a large track of arable land of which only a little over 30 per cent was being cultivated and appealed to investors to invest in agriculture in the area. Mr. Eli Adade from Adaklu Ablornu was declared the best district farmer while 20 others, including a physically challenged person were also given awards.