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Christo Asafo inheritance dispute: Some seized guns are not registered - Muntaka

Enoch Darfah Frimpong Jun - 23 - 2026 , 11:25 3 minutes read

Out of the several caches of arms and ammunition seized from the Kantanka private security company, which was involved in last Sunday's shooting incident at Kwabenya, some of them are registered, and others are also not registered, the Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, has disclosed.

"We've seized several caches of arms and ammunition. I have seen side arms, I have seen pump actions, I've seen a lot of ammunition, some are registered, some are not registered, and all that is an infraction of the regulation that establishes the private security organisation. These are the reasons why we have to revoke their licence while we go deep into investigations to establish why they had to do all that," the minister said in a radio interview monitored by Graphic Online on Accra-based Joy FM on Tuesday morning [June 23, 2026].

He said he was aware there was a court injunction halting a ceremony in relation to finding a successor to lead the Christo Asafo Church following the death of Apostle Kwadwo Safo in September 2025.

As a result, police personnel were stationed at the church premises to prevent any ceremony from taking place as part of the security measures to prevent chaos.

But, he said, the organisers swerved the police, moved the venue of the event from the church premises to a private residence at Kwabenya in Accra, which happened to be the residence of Israel Kwadwo Safo Akofena.

Christo Asafo inheritance dispute: They changed church venue due to court injunction to 'swerve' police - Muntaka

Speaking in the radio interview, the minister said the estate of the late Apostle Kwadwo Safo was "their family issue, but whatever happened over the weekend is very unfortunate because there was a court injunction to prevent something from happening in the church, and the police were on the ground, the regional police command were there in their numbers."

"Then I'm told that along the line, they [police] heard that they've changed the venue and they [police] were trying to locate where they were, when this incident happened, which is very unfortunate because my belief is that once there is ... our suspicion was that they will be law-abiding and make sure that they settle the issues in court but that didn't happen."

"Then unfortunately we realised the very licence that we gave them [private security company], that was supposed to be used, the private company has a guideline, there is a prescribed uniform, there is a firm instruction that you don't use firearms, now we realise that they are using a different uniform, they are using firearms which is against the regulation that established private security organisations, so we had to revoke the licence, and then investigate to make sure that punitive actions are taken" Muntaka added.

The minister said apart from the nine persons arrested as of now including Israel Kwadwo Safo Akofena a number of firearms including pump action gun and pistol have been seized.

He disclosed that out of the guns seized so far, some are registered and others are not registered, which is an infraction of the law.