Koforidua, Aug. 27, GNA - Kwabena Owusu, a 37-year-old man from Bekwai in the Ashanti Region, is in police grips for allegedly selling an insecticide named Magic Sent which is suspected to be fake.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency in Koforidua on Tuesday, Assistant Police Superintendent of Police (ASP) Yaw Nketia-Yeboah, the Eastern Regional Public Affairs Officer, said on Monday, a group of traders from the Nsawam market arrested Kwabena Owusu and sent him to the Nsawam Police Station for selling the insecticide.
He said during interrogation, the suspect confessed in the presence of witnesses that he ground broom and cow dung and sold to the general public as insecticides.
According to ASP Nketia-Yeboah, the suspect usually dressed in female apparel and covered his head with wig and wore shoes to match.
He said sample of the substance was yet to be sent to Forensic Crime Laboratory for test, and the Nsawam Police had started preparing a provisional charge of defrauding by false pretense and engaging in obnoxious trade against the suspect.
ASP Nketia-Yeboah, therefore, cautioned the general public to exercise care when patronizing insecticides which might be hazardous to their health and to endeavour to report any of such suspected cases to the nearest police station.
GNA
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