The police are on a manhunt for a 23-year-old woman, suspected to be a Nigerian, who attempted to smuggle a weapon into police cells.
The woman, according to the police in Cantonments, Accra, had hidden a locally manufactured pistol loaded with ammunition into a pack of rice and was sending it to a remand prisoner in police custody.
The lady however, fled before she could be arrested.
According to a police report last Sunday, the young lady turned up at the station with two packs of fried rice bearing the logo of a popular fast food.
The packaged food was intended for a certain remand inmate, Asuquo Mbuotidem Edem Faith, currently at the Cantonments Cells.
The prisoner had been brought into the cells by personnel of the Anti-Armed Robbery Unit of the CID Headquarters for various robbery-related offences.
It was when the food was scrutinised by the counter officer that the locally manufactured pistol was found concealed in it. Also contained in the food pack was one AA cartridge.
Unfortunately, the lady fled the station before she could be arrested.
A CCTV footage at the station captured her entry, and the police are making efforts to arrest her.
The Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Efia Tenge, confirmed the incident, which she said occurred on Sunday, July 11, 2021 around 4:45pm.
“When the food was carefully inspected by the police officer on duty, a locally pistol with an AA cartridge was found concealed in one of the packs with the food covering it,” DSP Tenge disclosed.
By Linda Tenya-Ayettey