THE Tamale High Court has remanded in prison custody the two suspects who were in possession of locally manufactured guns during a dawn swoop in Yendi last Saturday.
The two, Mohammed Baba and Abdulai Osman, who were charged for illegal possession of firearms, are to re-appear before the court on April 26, 2010. The guns were tendered in court as exhibits.
The suspects were among 41 others picked up by security operatives in connection with the murder of the Dagbon Overlord, Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II, on March 27, 2002.
The guns were found on them when they were screened at Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region after they had been arrested in Yendi.
The case involving six other suspects who were also rounded up during a rampage at the Yendi Market last Sunday could not be heard in court because they were deemed as minors.
The case has, therefore, been referred to the Attorney-General’s Office for advice.
In a related development, the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, has indicated that the Yendi municipality is now calm after earlier skirmishes by some irate youth groups following the arrest of the suspects.
He advised the residents to remain calm as the security went about its duties and warned that anybody who took the law into his or her own hands would be drastically dealt with by the law.
He said the presence of security personnel in the municipality was not to intimidate anybody but ensure law and order. He, therefore, advised all law-abiding residents to go about their duties and activities peacefully without fear.
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