Police arrest 10 more suspects in connection with violent attacks across the country

The Ghana Police Service has announced that its officers have apprehended 10 more suspects in connection with violent attacks across the country.

The latest arrest brings to 107, the number of suspects arrested since the December 7 elections.

According to the police, it has recorded a number of incidences of lawlessness across the country and warned it may be forced to apply force to stop the violent attacks on offices by alleged supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The Police have also indicated that it worked with Ghana Armed Forces to restore law and order in certain parts of the country.

“Among them the attack on Ghana Gas offices, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority and Passport Office where people massed up demanding for jobs. The Police were also able to disperse crowd who massed up at cantonments in the afternoon, ” The Police said.

Addressing journalists in Accra, Police Director of Public Affairs, ACP Grace Ansah Akrofi said there is an instance
where alleged NDC supporters broke into a Police Station and freed some suspects. The Police are on a manhunt for the freed suspects.

According to the Police, at the Ghana Gas office, the security came under attack leading to one soldier sustaining varying degrees of injury.

The ACP Akrofi further warned such supporters to desist from attacking offices and ransacking individuals’ homes, assuring that “the Police have so far not used any firearms in the process of dispersing crowds but will not hesitate do so should the situation escalate.”

 

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