MAN WITH WEAPONS ARRESTED IN BAWKU ...Being processed for court (PAGE 3)

ONE of the top advisers of the Bawku Naba, Mr John Awunbila Ndego, who was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle arms and ammunition to Bawku, will be put before court today.
According to the Upper East Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Victor Seth Agbetornyo, the accused was in custody while the police were conducting further investigations.
Mr Ndego, who is also the assistant bursar of the Bawku Senior High School, was found carrying two AK 47 assault rifles, a pistol and 153 rounds of ammunition.
The Officer Commanding the Airborne Force, Major Orlando Agbeko, said the military had been attracted to the accused when he was buying fuel because his demeanour was suspicious.
He said the accused was wearing fugu and had a fertiliser bag tied to his motorbike when he was arrested.
The rifles and the ammunition were allegedly concealed in a briefcase which Ndego was conveying on his motorbike to Bawku.
Bawku and its environs are under curfew, following fresh fighting in the municipality. Under the terms of the curfew, persons in the affected areas are debarred from carrying arms, ammunition or any offensive weapons.
Meanwhile, Togolese government officials and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) say large numbers of Ghanaians fleeing the ethnic conflict in the Upper East Region are creating a humanitarian problem for Togo, reports Ebow Godwin, Lome.
A Togolese government source confirmed in Lome that “hundreds of persons, including old men, women and children, caught up in the ethnic crossfire between the Mamprusis and Kusasis in Bawku are fleeing in droves to seek refuge in northern Togo”.
Togo national television over the weekend showed footage of a large number of Ghanaian refugees being presented with food items by representatives of the Togolese Head of State, Faure Gnassingbe, at UNHCR temporary resettlement centres at Cinkasse and Dankpen in northern Togo.
Although some of the groups involved in the ethnic conflict in Bawku have relatives in Togo, officials of the UNHCR agree that the influx of the refugees from Ghana is creating a new humanitarian problem for Togo.
Hundreds of other residents fleeing the conflict zone in Bawku are said to be heading for Burkina Faso.
The latest fighting erupted Saturday, last week, following the stoning to death of a Mamprusi man at a town called Buabula, near Sabongeri, a community of Kusasi people, after he had gone out to search for his missing horse. That killing led to the massacre of a dozen Kusasis in a retaliatory attack by Mamprusis in Bawku.