[ 2021-02-16 ]

Kwahu West police run out of charge sheets due to numerous arrests
Police in the Kwahu West Municipality of the
Eastern Region have run out of charge sheets
because of the huge number of people who have been
arrested for flouting the Coronavirus protocols
within the municipality.

Most of these recalcitrants were arrested in
various markets, especially, in Nkawkaw, the
Municipal Capital.

The Municipal Chief Executive, Yaw Owusu Addo, who
made the revelation, explained that due to the
strict enforcement of the directives, the police
were on the grounds to embark on constant arrests
and these led to the shortage of the charge
sheets.

Mr. Owusu Addo was speaking in an interview on
Tuesday, February 16 on Onua TV’s Maakye segment
dubbed ‘Mantem Mpuntuo’ hosted by Afia Tagor.

“We are enforcing the Covid-19 protocols to the
extent that police said they have run out of
charge sheets because we have arrested too many
people for breaking the Covid-19 protocols”.

The former Director-General of Ghana Broadcasting
Corporation (GBC) said “we have decided to
embark on education because the arrests were too
much”.

Covid-19 cases in Kwahu West

Mr. Owusu Addo noted that three people have lost
their lives in the Municipality since the outbreak
while 406 cases have been recorded.

“We have 29 active cases…three deaths and
about 406 cases so far and the health directorate
has been very very active.”

He said, “even before the outbreak here, they
have already started the testing in cars and in
stations, so we started testing before the
government’s directives, we had started”.

Source - 3 News

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