Police arrests 150 criminals including 25 females at "the Events Hub", Achimota

Police arrests 150 criminals including 25 females at "the Events Hub", Achimota

- Police have arrested 150 suspected criminals at Achimota

- These arrests follow an “intelligence-led” operation

- The suspects includes 25 females aged between 19 and 25

A team of Police Officers from the National Police Operations Department, led by ACP Mr. Kwasi Arhin, Director/Operations, has arrested 150 suspected criminals including 25 females at "The Event Hub”, in Achimota-Kingsby Accra on 22nd April, 2021.

The arrest is part of the Police Administration's resolve to use intelligence-led operations to rid the city of criminals.

Police arrests 150 criminals including 25 females at "the Events Hub", Achimota
Police arrests 150 criminals including 25 females at "the Events Hub", Achimota (Photo: Facebook/Ghana Police Service)
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The suspects, between the ages of 19 and 25 were arrested with assorted items, retrieved by Police. They include unregistered vehicles and motorbikes; parcels of white substances and dried leaves believed to be narcotic drugs; mixtures of suspected codeine and laptop computers.

Police arrests 150 criminals including 25 females at "the Events Hub", Achimota
Police arrests 150 criminals including 25 females at "the Events Hub", Achimota (Photo: Facebook/Ghana Police Service)
Source: Facebook

The Police Service says it will continue to “adopt strategies to rid communities of criminals, in a bid to prevent crimes and to ensure law and order in the country.

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The general public is encouraged to assist the Police with information on criminal activities. Call 191 and 18555 in cases of emergency”.

Police arrests 150 criminals including 25 females at "the Events Hub", Achimota
Police arrests 150 criminals including 25 females at "the Events Hub", Achimota (Photo: Facebook/Ghana Police Service)
Source: Facebook

Ghana Immigration have round up 480 Nigerian and Burkinabe illegal immigrants in the Upper East Region.

These undocumented aliens are said to have made their way through Ghana’s porous borders, the upper East Regional police PRO, DSP David Fianko-Okyere, revealed to the media.

All immigrants were not in facemasks, neither have their Covid-19 status being determined.

Already, the Ghana Airport Company has been warned about the high rate of Covid-19 cases being recorded at the Kotoka International Airport.

In an emergency letter by the Frontier Healthcare Service (FHS) to the Managing Director of the Airport Company, Yaw Kwakwa, the company revealed that 75 positive cases of Covid-19 were recorded on the 24th of April alone. “This exceeds the previous highest rate of 45 positive cases on the 21st of April.

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To this end, government has been urged to reinforce strict measures on the PCR results acceptable for entry into Ghana.

“It has become imperative to implement new guidelines to curtail the influx of positive cases into the country,” the letter warned.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging African countries including Ghana not to throw away expired Covid-19 vaccines. The Organization says the vaccines are safe for use despite their expiry.

The appeal comes after Malawi and South Sudan said they would destroy more than 70,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because they expired in mid-April, the BBC reports.

"My appeal to member states is: if we are doing our part to mobilise these vaccines, you do your part and use the vaccines," John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC stated.

Recent figures from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) show that Ghana’s Covid-19 cases have dropped to 25.

So far, 555,259 vaccine doses have been administered to the arms of over 250, 000 Ghanaians, the GHS has stated.

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Ghana’s nationwide inoculation program has been commended by many including the World Bank which believes the economy will grow by some 2 percent in 2021.

Despite the gains, government is leaving nothing to chance. So far, police officials have been deployed across all beaches in coastal areas. This is to ensure that revelers do not flout Covid protocol.

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