The Ghana Police Service has assured it will prosecute perpetrators of Saturday’s chieftaincy violence at Ablekuma in Accra which claimed three lives. The police were responding to criticisms that they had tacitly encouraged impunity by consistently failing to hold people accountable to the law for their actions. Acting Head of Police Public Affairs, DSP Cephas Arthur, told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Monday, that the police were gathering enough evidence to put some nine suspects arrested in connection with the killings and vandalism that took place at Ablekuma last Saturday, before court. Loyalists of two claimants to the Ablekuma stool engaged in shooting and arson Saturday whilst marking the climax of their traditional Homowo festival. Explaining police findings at the scene, Mr Arthur said, “In the course of our search, we found out that the palace of one of the [claimants], Nii Kweku Fosu, had been vandalized and we found some blood drops in the palace also; we also realized that two vehicles had been burnt down and we discovered 64 used cartridges and one live one and nine used 9-millimeter ammunition and then four live ones.” He said police preliminary investigations also revealed that Nii Kweku Fosu and his supporters first performed the traditional rite of sprinkling a special dish, Kpopkoi and retired to his palace. “…When the other faction, Nii Larbi Mensah’s people were also out sprinkling their Kpokpoi, they came under gunfire allegedly from the opposing side which they returned resulting in the deaths and the causalities and the destruction,” he stated. The two claimants and seven other suspects are currently in police custody. DSP Arthur said the use of light weapons was a worry for the police and appealed to the public to be vigilant and help the police to retrieve any such dangerous weapons from unlawful hands.