Security personnel intercept guns at Bawku

Security personnel on Sunday intercepted nine Russian-made single-barrel guns concealed in sacks on a commercial bus at a road check-point at Bawku where a post-election conflict resulted in the loss of several lives and destruction of property.

The bus, (registration number GT 6035H),belonging to Kingdom Transport Service (KTS) was from Kumasi.

A police source told the GNA at Bawku that none of the passengers claimed ownership but said the police have detained the bus and the driver together with a loader at the KTS terminal at Bolgatanga to assist in investigations.

Corporal Osei Williams who was on duty at the charge office at Bawku Police station, said the driver, Fred Okyere, allegedly told the police that he saw the loader Ali Yambil, sewing a torn portion of one of the sacks in which the guns were found at Bolgatanga.

Yambil allegedly said he knows the owner of the arms facially because he uses the route regularly.