Police in Bo have intercepted a 5-Seater Mini bus containing bags of groundnuts. The vehicle with a commercial number plate ADT 263 was interrupted in the Southern part of the City, having entered the town from a tour of Guinea.
Inside the bags of groundnut there was a bag that contained 2,218 cartridges and 5 Shotguns, along with two cartoons of assorted electrical appliances.
The driver of the Vehicle, Ishmael Jalloh is in the hands of the police, though he is quoted by the Officer in-Charge Criminal Investigations Department Bo City Police Station John Sesay, as having denied having any knowledge of the carrying of guns and cartridges in any of the bags in his vehicle.
The driver reportedly accepted loading the goods but is protesting that he never knew that any of the bags carried Shotguns and Cartridges.
The passengers are reported to have deserted the place no sooner than the incident occurred, the police told Awoko.
This interruption the police explained was made upon a tip-off from residents at the New London Motor Park. The residents the police explained saw a bag of rice containing cartridges drop which eventually caused the cartridges spilling whilst the vehicle tried to have its contents off-loaded at the park. The Local Unit Commander Bo Joseph Kabbia told Awoko that “This is how bad people enter societies. And who knows who will be affected. Even you could be the victim.” However, the Police could not allow Awoko to have a picture of the shotguns and cartridges.
By Bawoh Yusuf Jenkins
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