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Kumasi becoming an attraction for arms movement - SAC
Executive Director of the Commission, Jones Applerh believes this year's election could lead to politically motivated violence if the trend is not checked.
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Speaking to Accra-based Joy FM, Mr. Applerh said the region is currently experiencing a trend associated with stockpiling of weapons.
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He fears vigilante groups could end up using such weapons to perpetuate violence.
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Mr. Applerh's concerns follow the number of arrests and interceptions of arms in the various regions across the country, particularly the Ashanti region.
The police recently arrested four persons including a Burkinabe after retrieving loads of rifles and ammunition in Kumasi.
The ammunition intercepted included eleven AK 47 riffles, 10 G3s, 45 automatic side-arms, 9mm AK 47 tracer ammunitions, one machine gun, 45 automatic G3 ammunitions, four firing pins and five 12.7mm ammunitions.
In the Western region, police seized at least 13 guns within three months.
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In January 2016, the Ghana Immigration Service seized 12 locally manufactured single barrel guns at Aflao in the Volta region
A 2015 research conducted by the Small Arms Commission have indicated that at least one million owners having unregistered weapons.
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