Head of Prosecutions at the Accra Regional Police Command, ACP Lydia Donkor has hinted the level punishment for recalcitrants citizens who violates lockdowns directives.
According to ACP Lydia Donkor that deviant citizens arrested for breach of lockdown rules in Kumasi, Accra, Kasoa, and Tema may spend ten years in jail or fined between GHS12,000 and GHS60,000.
So far, according to the police, 406 persons have been arrested during the lockdown period. While 103 of them are in custody, 248 have been granted bail and 41 have been processed for court.
The majority of them are in Greater Accra 161 and Ashanti Region 70.
The others are Volta 67, Western 8, Eastern 6, Western North 31, and Bono 20.
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The rest are Northern 9, Central 24, North East 1, Upper East 8, Upper West 2, and Western North 8.
ACP Lydia Donkor told journalists on Tuesday that the Ghana Police Service “wishes to advise the general public, once again, to comply with all the rules and regulations governing the imposition of restrictions act”, adding: “All my colleague heads of legal and prosecution in other regions have been charged to ensure that they enforce section 6 of the imposition of restrictions 2020 act 1012.”
“And I’ll state here for emphasis that if you are arrested, you will be prosecuted after successful investigations and you are found guilty,” she stressed.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Health Service has announced that 17 patients being treated for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus have recovered.
