A man who posed as an officer of the Ghana Prison Service in Asante Mampong, has been arrested for impersonation. Evans Tweneboah-Kodua, who claimed to be an Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, was arrested after he got two policemen stationed at Mampong to guarantee a loan of GH¢2,000 from a Rural Bank, and afterwards closed the accounts and vanished from Mampong. He was picked up at a funeral at Kwameng following a tip-off. Tweneboah-Kodua had been known in Mampong for the past three years as an officer of the Ghana Prisons because he always wore Prison Officer's uniform. Mampong Municipal Police Commander, Abdullai Iddrisu, who briefed the Times said Tweneboah Koduah claimed he was once enlisted into the Ghana Police Service from November 5, 1995 to February 22, 1997 and was stationed at Kibi in the Eastern Region. He was promoted to Lance Corporal 2001, and was supposed to have been promoted to Chief Inspector after he graduated from the University of Cape Coast in 2004. However, he was not promoted and instead sent to Asenua in the Bekwai District. He later quit the service following some problems with the authorities and joined the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) for a brief period before joining the Prisons in 2007 and was ranked ASP and posted to Mampong. A search of his room at Asenua in Kumasi revealed identity cards of the police, GNFS and other documents bearing his name and that of a Godfred Osei Ntim. According to the Police Commander, the Kwamanha Rural Bank wrote to the two policemen that Kodua had closed his accounts after the policemen guaranteed his loan for which they are to be held responsible. The policemen therefore started to search for him from the Prisons Service only to learn that he was not an officer but an impersonator. Meanwhile, Tweneboah-Kodua has been put before a circuit court in Mampong presided over by Mr Kofi Nyantakyi Akuffo, charged with possessing fake identity cards and pretending to be a public officer. His plea was not taken and he was remanded into prison custody for two weeks pending further investigations. Source: Times