A Nigeria national, Chinadu Okafor, 22 and a trader, has been jailed one year imprisonment, after he claimed ownership of a pump action gun that was discovered in his ex-girlfriend’s room.
Chinadu was sentenced by an Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Samuel Bright Acquah.
The convict’s sentence was deferred to yesterday, when he pleaded guilty at his first appearance before the court to the count possession of firearm and ammunition without lawful authority, on Monday November 21, 2022.
The convict, according to the Prosecuting Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Maxwell Oppong, was arrested and handed over to the police by a military officer.
The prosecutor narrated to the court that the convict was the complainant’s tenant’s ex-boyfriend, and they both reside at Railways near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra.
ASP Oppong explained that the complainant was able to arrest the convict, because he owned a drinking spot and kiosk, which he had rented out at Railways.
However, on October 26, 2022, at about 7:30am, the complainant was informed by one of his tenants that she had found a brown box under her bed, and would want him to come and inspect it.
When the complainant attend to the call and opened the said brown box, he found a pump action gun with barrel No. 954793 in it.
The complainant, after interrogating the tenant, discovered that the owner of the box was the latter’s ex-boyfriend.
The court was told that a few minutes after the discovery, the convict was spotted around the area, and he was arrested and handed over to the police, together with the exhibit.
During interrogation, the accused admitted hiding the gun under the said bed in his cautioned statement, but had refused to reveal where he got it from.
