A major amount of arms and ammunition, allegedly bound for Nigeria, was seized by the Ghana police in Accra on Tuesday.
The arms and ammunition,
including hordes of AAA cartridges, 10 pomp-action guns and 20
double-barreled guns, were found in a false compartment under the flour
plate of the carrier truck.
Addressing the media on
Tuesday evening, Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of
Police, Rose Atinga Bio, said she had received a call from an informant
around 15:00 GMT (4.00pm Nigerian time) that a truck was off loading
what could be smuggled goods in a house at Achimota, a suburb of the
capital.
The operation, which
could be a major break-through for the police into the modus operandi of
arms smugglers in the region, led to the arrest three Ghanaians and two
Nigerians.
“Upon reaching there, my men only saw an empty truck branded in coca-cola trade-mark on the compound,” she told the media.
But upon scrutiny, the
policemen realised that the flour plate had just been welded at some
specific points, raising their suspicion that there could be something
unusual under the plate.
The police team ordered
the driver to open the compartment and large caches of arms and
ammunition were seen concealed under the flour plate.
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