By Gifty Amofa, GNA
Accra, April 9, GNA - A 25-year-old student and a 56-year-old self-employed man have been convicted by an Accra Circuit Court to pay a fine of GH¢400.00 each for possessing offensive weapons without authority.
Peter David Assandoh in default would serve six months in prison whiles Matthew Kojo Semereka, in default would serve three months imprisonment.
They had both pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit crime, possessing fire arm and ammunition without authority and carrying offensive weapons.
Police Chief Inspector Kwabena Adu told the Court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh that Assandoh is a student whilst Semereka is self-employed and both lived in the same house at Sahara, a suburb of Dansoman in Accra.
On March 16, at about 0300 hours a Dansoman police patrol team arrested the two upon a tip-off.
An informant had called the Police Headquarters’ Control room to report that some men were harassing residents of Sahara-Dansoman and its environs.
Police proceeded to the place and found the two walking together in the area with Semereka holding a wooden pestle.
Police arrested them and a spot search on Assandoh revealed a foreign pistol with the registration number, 11599 in addition to live ammunitions concealed in his pair of shorts.
Further search in their rooms revealed a bayonet in Assandoh’s room.
They were sent to the police station together with the exhibits and during investigations, it came out that there was no license covering the weapons.
The Police charged the two and put them before the Court.
GNA
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