The Western North Regional Police Command has apprehended two individuals in connection with the alleged theft of food items intended for students of Sefwi Bekwai STEM Senior High School at Awaso.

Acting on intelligence, a joint team comprising police officers, the local Member of Parliament, and the Municipal Chief Executive raided the homes of the suspects: Benedicta Nyamadi, a school matron, and Rachael Kyeremateng, a kitchen cook.

During the search, authorities recovered a substantial cache of food items believed to have been stolen from the school.

Items seized included twenty-one 50kg bags of rice, four sacks of gari, two sacks of maize, one and a half bags of millet, one bag of sugar, three bags of beans, forty large tins of tomato paste, four cartons of milk, six gallons of cooking oil, and fifty-four tins of canned mackerel.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects had allegedly planned to sell the food items at a later date. The police have confirmed that further investigations are ongoing.