A man, Flt. Sergeant Nicholas Owusu Frimpong, who fired AK47 shots into the air on Friday, 31 December 2021, at the A&C Mall to welcome the New Year, has been arrested.

He was arrested through a collaboration between the police and the military police.

The scene was captured on video and widely circulated on social media.

Flt. Sergeant Frimpong is currently being “detained by the military police while investigations continue,” a statement issued by the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Alexander Kwaku Obeng, on Monday, 3 January 2022, noted.  

The police used the opportunity to urge “the public to be guided in their celebrations and desist from acts that compromise public safety and order”.

The police administration had earlier announced a GHS5,000 bounty on the head of the suspect.

The police, in a statement on 1 January 2022, said they had "intercepted a video in which a young man is seen firing several shots of a firearm suspected to be AK47 at ANC Mall, East Legon, last night, 31 December 2021, purportedly to welcome the New Year”.

"The police has taken a serious stance against the actions of the young man since it is a crime to discharge a firearm in public without lawful and necessary occasion under Section 209 of the Criminal Offences Act 1960 (Act 29)."

"The police administration, after reviewing the video footage, has placed an amount of GHS 5,000 as a bounty for anyone who can provide information leading to his arrest to face prosecution," the statement read.

In the video, the man is seen casually discharging multiple rounds of the weapon into the air before being approached and embraced by another man.