Police officers stationed at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle on Thursday morning, arrested a commercial motorbike rider, also known as “okada”, after they found a loaded hand gun on him.
Eyewitnesses said it took four officers to restrain the rider before disarming him and whisking him away.
“The man was very strong. The four police officers were not even able to take the gun away from him. It was after one of them hit him with the rifle that they were able to unarm him,” one eyewitness said to Citi News’ Philip Nii Lartey who was at the scene.
“The police were arresting the “okada” riders and demanding their keys, so they stopped this man; and asked him for his keys but he refused. The police tried forcefully to take the keys away from him when he noticed the gun,” the eyewitness revealed.
It is unclear why the rider was carrying a loaded gun.
The police were on an exercise arresting the commercial motorbike riders (okada riders), since the business is an illegality, but has been allowed to expand ove time.
Despite efforts by the police to clamp down on the Okada businesses, it is evidenent that the comerical motorbike operators, are not ready to go out of business.
Source: citifmonline.com
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Some people take elections as everything. I think it is the lazy or corrupt guys in the system who don't want change.
Are you telling the Law enforcement agency that because there is a pending election they should suspend the enforcement of the law? This is crazy.
You must be ashamed of yourself, OKADA RIDER with illegal weapons too have something to do with NPP, stop this cheap politics and grow up.
NDC wake up.Tough the operation of OKADA for now is illegal, this is not the time to carry out this kind of exercise if NDC wants to win votes from many of this operators whose only source of living is what they get from this to feed their family. IGP ,please suspend this like the checking of vehicles.Those officers i believe are elements of NPP bent to incite the OKADA riders against the NDC SO THAT THEY WILL NOT VOTE FOR NDC. General MOSQUITO AND MAHAMA must always be smart.