General News of Thursday, 6 January 2022<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n 2022-01-06<\/p>\n Police arrest man for firing AK47<\/b><\/p>\n Video captures man firing gunshots to welcome New Year<\/p>\n Man firing gunshots at A&C Mall identified as Flt. Sgt. Nicholas Owusu Frimpong<\/p>\n The Acting Director of the Department of Public Relations of the Ghana Armed Forces, Commander Andy La-Anyane, has said Flight Sergeant Nicholas Owusu Frimpong who discharged firearms at the A&C mall will be sanctioned.<\/p>\n According to him, Flight Sergeant Nicholas Owusu Frimpong acted unprofessionally by discharging his riffle publicly as it\u2019s against the service regulations.<\/p>\n Speaking to citinewroom.com, Commander Andy La-Anyane said the military command is waiting for the outcome of the investigation to apply the necessary sanctions.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Military High Command takes this particular incident seriously because it is unprofessional for a soldier to go to a public place and fire his rifle indiscriminately<\/p>\n \u201cSo the Command is waiting for the outcome of the investigation by the military police and then the necessary sanctions will be applied to serve as a deterrent to others.\u201d<\/p>\n The Ghana Police Service announced the arrest of a man who was captured in a video indiscriminately firing gunshots from an AK47.<\/p>\n The man identified as Flight Sergeant Nicholas Owusu Frimpong was said to have been doing that as a way of welcoming the New Year.<\/p>\n In a statement shared by the Service on its social media pages, it stated that it took a collaboration between them and the Military to apprehend the man.<\/p>\n \u201cA collaboration between the Police and the Military has led to the arrest of Flt. Sergeant Nicholas Owusu Frimpong in connection with the discharge of a firearm at A&C Mall, East Legon, on Friday, December 31, 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cThe suspect was arrested following Police investigation into the incident of a young man captured on video footage firing several shots of a firearm at A&C Mall purportedly to welcome the New Year, 2022,\u201d the statement said in part.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" General News of Thursday, 6 January 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2022-01-06 Flight Sergeant Nicholas Owusu Frimpong discharged firearms at the A&C mall to welcome new year Police arrest man for firing AK47 Video captures man firing gunshots to welcome New Year Man firing gunshots at A&C Mall identified as Flt. Sgt. Nicholas Owusu Frimpong The Acting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":733058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Flight](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/59616543.295.jpg\" "\\"Flight")
Flight Sergeant Nicholas Owusu Frimpong discharged firearms at the A&C mall to welcome new year<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n