Alavanyo more volatile; weapons produced there – Police

General News of Sunday, January 20th, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-01-20

The command of the Volta Regional Police said that Alavanyo had become a base for the production of badault weapons, which made the region even more volatile and more exposed to violence.

The head of the Volta Regional Police, DCOP, Francis Ebenezer Doku, told reporters after Sunday's shooting in Alavanyo Dzogbedze, in which four people died, that the region remains a high-risk area because of the proliferation of weapons.

"At the moment the weapons are being imported to Alavanyo, they are also making weapons," he said, adding that the group had already identified the location of more than 70 AK47 badault rifles which had been stored. "Alavanyo is at the head of the country in the manufacture of firearms … At the moment, some people are going there to monitor the manufacturing base," said the chief of the regional police of the country. Volta, Doku.

DCOP Doku noted that such weapons are not intended for hunting but for the destruction of human targets.

"What do they make weapons for, to go kill the grbad cutters?" The target is the human beings, you and me, so they will do everything to defend their position, "he hinted.

When asked why the police did not arrest the weapons producers, DCOP Doku replied, "Will they allow us to do this? They will put all kinds of defense mechanisms in place, because they have an interest. So, if we start to pick them one by one, do not we reduce the numbers? "

Alavanyo's youth challenged the police report about the recent violence, insisting that the police clashed over the marijuana farm belonging to an Ashaiman police officer who had invested in the company through his brother Stephen Awaner.

"An Ashaiman police officer, in the Greater Accra region, gave his brother, Stephen Awaner, a sum of 20,000 Ghc to raise him in Alavanyo – Dzogbedze. The brother who already owed some of the young people from the company had to pay them the balance, but hesitated. So the boys collected 15 sticks of marijuana [Amnesia Haze breed] to make up for their balance.

"After the harvest was done and the officer's share was sent to him, he was not happy to have lost his investment, so he had to call on the commander of the DCOP regional police, Francis Doku, to arrest the boys who had harvested the 15 sticks, "noted the youth badociation in a statement.

When Citi News contacted the Volta Regional Police Command to get an answer to Alavanyo 's youth claims, DCOP Doku denied.