One Flt Sergeant Nicholas Owusu Frimpong has been detained by the Ghana police service after being captured on camera with a firearm at the A&C Mall on new year’s eve.
The suspect who has been identified to be a military official is said to have opened fire with an AK 47 rifle at the shopping Mall in East Legon, Accra, on New Year’s Eve to usher in the year 2022.
He is being charged based on Section 209 of the Criminal Offences Act 1960 (Act 29) states that firing a firearm in public “without lawful and necessary occasion” is illegal.
According to a police statement signed under Supt Alexander Kwaku Obeng (director of public relations), the suspect is presently being held by military police as the investigation continues.
read the full statement below:
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