Some 5 thieves who are taking advantage of the lockdown to steal wares of market women have been arrested by police.
Some market women earlier had complained that some perfidious persons are taking advantage of the lockdown situation to loot their shops and steal wares of traders at the blindside of the security agencies guarding the market.
Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) taskforce put strategies in place and succeeded in arrested the five suspected thieves for allegedly stealing tubers of Yam at Kumasi Central Market.
The suspects, according to reports have since been taken to the Zongo Police Station for further interrogation and would be arraigned before court.
