The trucks, with registration numbers GN 993-14 and GG 3674-20, had the suspected substances concealed beneath heaps of sand at Apesua, near Nkurakan.

This was contained in a press statement issued by Superintendent of Police Ebenezer Tetteh of the Regional Police Command’s Public Affairs Unit and copied to the Ghana News Agency.

According to the statement, two suspects, who were the drivers of the tipper trucks, have been arrested and are assisting police with investigations. Their names have been withheld for now.

“The general public will be updated in due course,” the statement added.

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The two, Richard Kwame Asare, 76, and Kojo Tetteh, 74, are both professional blacksmiths and residents of Pakro near Adawso in the Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region.

The police, based on intelligence, clamped down on their activities and have so far retrieved six locally manufactured pistols and eight single barrel guns.

According to the Eastern Regional Police PRO, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, the police are on a manhunt for persons who have bought some weapons from the suspects.

He said the suspects will be charged for possession of firearms and put before the court to face the full rigours of the law.

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“We are pursuing the persons who have benefited from this criminal venture. Very soon, we will zero in on some of these persons who have benefited from this criminal venture, that is, persons who have bought locally manufactured pistols and these types of guns from these persons,” DSP Tetteh said.