THE Police in Tamale have retrieved large quantities of assorted medical items that were locked up in a house located in Lamashegu, a suburb of Tamale.
The items, which were contained in boxes and polythene bags, included a wheel chair, Insulin, measuring scales, children’s weighing scales, BCJ syringes, Icepacks and rolls of gauze.
The owner of the house, 40-year old Yehuza Fuseini, was arrested and placed in custody yesterday (Wednesday), after he presented himself to the police.
Whiles the suspect, who is a business man, provided some receipts to prove he acquired the items through proper means, personnel of the Medical Stores of the Northern Regional Health Directorate have also claimed that the items belong to the stores.
According to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, the items were retrieved when a team of police personnel, led by the Metro Commmander, Deputy Superintendant of Police (DSP) Caeser Abanga, conducted a search on the house, numbered SL 317.
He said the particular room where the items were concealed was located in an uncompleted building that was being raised within the inner perimeters of another existing building.
Chief Inspector Tetteh said the police undertook the search following some vital information received indicating that some stolen items were hidden in that house.
He said on July 7th, this year the NR Health Directorate lodged a complaint at the police headquarters that a number of food items were stolen from its Medical Stores about three months ago and that efforts by the directorate to find the items proved futile.
Following the complaint, the PRO mentioned that four personnel of the medical stores were picked up by the police to assist in investigations.
Those picked up were Kotoka Yaw Paul, 28 and Ahmed Issahaku, 36, who are both labourers, and Wodome Kumane, 36 and Mohammed Zakari, 55, who worked as security personnel.
Chief Inspector Tetteh said the four were later granted police enquiry bail, whiles investigations continued.
He said it was in the course of investigations that the police had vital information that the items could be located in a house at Lamashegu and this therefore prompted the police to conduct the search.
“The missing food items, which allegedly belonged to the World Food Programme (WFP), have therefore not been found yet and so the police would continue its investigations to unravel the mystery,” the PRO stated.
“We would also ascertain where the medical items really belong to the suspect or that of the medical stores,” he added.
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