{"id":46081,"date":"2025-08-24T06:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=46081"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:42:52","slug":"two-arrested-with-ammunition-in-akwatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/08\/24\/two-arrested-with-ammunition-in-akwatia\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested with ammunition in Akwatia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police in the Akwatia District have arrested two men, including a Chinese national, after four live BB cartridges were discovered in their vehicle during a routine patrol on Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The suspects, identified as Enoch Asiedu, 32, and Lu Youyan, 58, were intercepted around 9:00 p.m. at the Boadua Livingstone snap checkpoint while travelling in a Toyota Hilux pickup. A search of the vehicle uncovered the ammunition hidden inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"97776a\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #97776a;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4086-1024x793.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46082 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4086-1024x793.avif 1024w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4086-300x232.avif 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4086-768x595.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4086.avif 1149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were immediately taken into custody and transferred to the Akwatia Police Station for further questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During preliminary interrogation, Asiedu reportedly told investigators that the cartridges belonged to their employer, identified only as&nbsp;<em>Mohammed<\/em>, who also owns the Toyota Hilux. Police say efforts are underway to track down Mohammed for questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two suspects remain in police custody as investigations continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident comes at a time when security is under intense scrutiny in Akwatia, with political parties heightening campaigns ahead of what is expected to be a fiercely contested by-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Akwatia District have arrested two men, including a Chinese national, after four live BB cartridges were discovered in their vehicle during a routine patrol on Thursday night. The suspects, identified as Enoch Asiedu, 32, and Lu Youyan, 58, were intercepted around 9:00 p.m. at the Boadua Livingstone snap checkpoint while travelling in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[11675,9747,6975,7421,2049,911,12309,421,5655,912,7818,594],"class_list":["post-46081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-akwatia","tag-ammunition","tag-arrest","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-national","tag-election","tag-men","tag-police","tag-security","tag-snap","tag-toyota","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46084,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46081\/revisions\/46084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}