An official of the National Health Insurance Scheme has been arrested in Yendi with short gun cartridges bound for Chereponi in the North East Region where there’s a curfew due to the renewed ethnic conflict.
Mohammed Dueshi, a district Public Relations officer for Chereponi, was arrested Sunday evening at the Police barrier in Yendi on a Metro Mass Transit bus when Police searched the bus upon a tip off.
According to a source, the 250 boxes of cartridges which were being transported from Tamale to the conflict zone were concealed under a seat in the bus that was being occupied by a police escort.
The unidentified policeman reportedly told the security personnel at the last barrier to Chereponi that the bus was ‘cleaned’ therefore they should allow them free passage without any search.
But the BNI operatives upon intelligence insisted on the bus being searched leading to the discovery of the ammunition.
He’s currently in Police custody assisting in investigations.
This arrest comes on the heels of the Defence Minister’s visit to Chereponi that secured a temporary cease fire and announcement that persons fueling the conflict will be fished out and severely punished.
Three persons have been killed in the renewed conflict between the Chokosis and the Konkombas in the Chereponi District.
Today[Monday] Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery are heading to Chereponi.
