Three AK 47assault rifles with 60 ammunitions at Bincheratanga, a village in the Nanumba North District in the Northern Region, have allegedly been stolen for about a year and some two months now. These arms and ammunitions are for the Ghana Police Service. The New Crusading GUIDE, for the past three months had been trying to find out how weapons got missing and what had happened so far. Number 36966L/CPL-Livingstone Kofi Awuku is one of the personnel charged for failing to carry out lawful orders to return extra arms and ammunitions at Binchiratanga for safekeeping at the armory, given to him by a senior police officer, Supt. I.A Allotey. Cpt. Livingstone Awuku, in a telephone interview with paper, said he was not guilty of the charge preferred against him, adding that he had been in charge of the National Service Personnel for three years at the village. "It came to a time when the number of service personnel reduced and therefore the District Police Commander, Supt. J.A. Allottey, called that every sector should bring extra arms and ammunitions to the armory for safe keeping," he claimed. Cpt. Awuku pointed out that the total arms were eight. He then sent five arms to the district capital Bimbilla, where the commander was stationed, stating that "It was left with three riffles and 60 ammunitions with them at the village which any of the personnel who came there to discharge his or her duty used. I and number 43779G /Constable Alex Ayim were left at the village. A signal was sent that men were needed for operational duties at Yendi District so Constable Alex Ayim left, leaving only Cpt. Livingstone Awuku at the place." He added that four days later a signal was sent that he (Alex Ayim) should go to Ho in the Volta Region for a two-week in-service training and therefore was called on phone by the District Commander to get ready for number 32552G/Cpt. William Bosso to take over from him. "The corporal came and took over from me, I then handed over the three arms and 60 ammunitions to him before going to Ho for the training," he narrated, adding when contacted, Number 32552G/Cpl. William Bosso, admitted that the three arms and 60 ammunitions were handed over to him before Cpl. Livingstone Awuku left for the training. Explaining how the weapons got missing, Cpl. Bosso said he had been on duty alone for about two weeks and then told the District Commander to change him so that he could have some rest before resuming duty but he was not permitted by the Commander. According to him, there was power outage at the village one night and so he fell asleep. He said he woke up only to discover that the weapons had been stolen. He added that he and the one who went to Ho for the training had been charged and interdicted until solution to the problem had been found. When the then District Commander of Nanuba North, Supt. J .A. Allotey - who is now the District Commander for the Yendi District - was contacted, he said he was not in the right position to talk about the issue and asked that the reporter should contacts the regional PRO in Tamale. The PRO, in a telephone interview with this paper, noted that personnel who were involved in the case were on interdiction but he declined comments on whether or not investigations into the case had started.