Police hunt for security guard on the run with 40million cedis

Police are searching for a private security guard suspected of stealing 40 million cedis. According to police, Guard Solomon Lamptey, in his late 20s, on November 6 was guard duty at the Cantonments residence of the Managing Director of Gischo Mining Company at about 6.00 p.m.

Police said at about 7.00 p.m. the accountant of Gischo sent 40 million cedis to the managing director's house. Lamptey helped the accountant to carry the money in a fertiliser sack to the living room, where the managing director's wife received it. She was said to have left the money in the living room and went upstairs.

The police said Lamptey asked a fellow security guard in the house, Jacob Adjei to keep watch at the back of the house. Lamptey then bolted out of the slide door with the money.