Three people, including a 32-year-old National Security Operative, have been brought before an Accra Circuit Court for illegally having a pump action pistol.
On December 25, this year, in Osu in Accra, the Police allegedly found the gun during a quick search there.
The defendants are 27-year-old businessman Joshua Kwame Gbeti, 28-year-old dealer Chris Mawunyo Oteiku, and National Security Operative and Chief Dawood Akwasi Agyemang.
The defendants have entered a not guilty plea to the charge of unlawful firearm possession.
They were granted bail in the amount of GHC250,000 with three sureties by Mrs. Evelyn Asamoah's court. The sureties must be government employees making at least GHC3,000 a month.
The accused were also ordered by the court to report to the police on the first Wednesday of every month unless otherwise instructed.
It has been postponed until January 12, 2023.
Earlier, attorneys for the accused individuals took turns arguing for bail, claiming that their clients were not flight risks, had permanent residences, and had respectable individuals willing to serve as sureties for them.
The award of bail was disputed by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Maxwell Oppong, who claimed that the weapon's cover paperwork were fake and that the weapon had been discharged many times.
According to ASP Oppong, the Police would like to get the accused's fingerprints in order to determine whether or not they match anything stored in the Police's computer system.
The prosecution also claimed that other guns were discovered in the accused people's vehicle.
The cops allegedly discovered clubs, nails, and other items in the car during a search.
The prosecution described how some people had been unlawfully utilising spotlights on their cars to elude the police, adding that it "takes skilled police officers to fish such people out."
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) and a few members of the Police Management Board visited Oxford Street in Osu on December 25, this year, at around 0140 hours, according to the prosecution's account of the case's circumstances.
According to the prosecution, some police officers observed Chris Otieku, the defendant, driving a blue-black Toyota Tundra with the licence plate WY 1088-20 while using surveillance spotlights.
According to the prosecution, "this grabbed the cops' notice and the car was swiftly apprehended."
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