A 35-year-old man has been arrested for storming a registration centre of the National Identification Authority firing warning shots in an attempt to halt the exercise.
The incident occurred Thursday March 19,2020 at about 7:40am at Obeyemi a farming community near Oterkpelu in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region.
The suspect identified as Stephen Tetteh, according to Starr News sources, had threatened the NIA officials to stop working since the exercise could endanger the health of applicants in the midst of coronavirus outbreak.
Meanwhile, Ghana has recorded five cases more of the deadly COVID-19 disease bringing the total number of cases to 16.
The Ghana Health Service in an update said all five were reported from Greater Accra region.
