Accra, July 20, 2017//- 446 unregistered motorbikes and 56 unregistered vehicles have been impounded by the Accra Regional Police Command in a swoop on Tuesday.
The swoop follows the murder of a police officer at Lapaz in Accra and the general insecurity in the Accra metropolis and other parts of the country.
It also resulted in the arrest of two women found with 297 wraps of substances suspected to be Indian hemp.
Police have always maintained that a number of crimes have been committed using unregistered motorbikes and cars in the country.
The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, ASP Afia Tenge, said some of the owners of the unregistered motorbikes and cars have since been arraigned before court.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante-Apeatu ordered the arrest and prosecution of persons who “do not have proper registration” in a wireless message sent to all police commands in Ghana. “These instructions are to be carried out with full vigour and must be robust,” the wireless message added.
There is an upsurge in “a large number of motor bikes” plying roads nationwide “without registration number plates,” the IGP noted.
African Eye Report
