Kasoa: Youth threaten naked demo against IGP

Scores of aggrieved youth and elders including land developers in the Gomoa Fetteh community of the Central Region have served notice to stage what they described as a “naked demonstration” against the Inspector General of Police (IGP) for refusing to act on their clarion calls to do a house cleaning exercise by reshuffling senior police officers at the Kasoa-Millennium City Police District Command and Millennium City Police Division.

Anger

According to some of the youth, who spoke in an interview with Otec FM on Tuesday September 29, 2020, their anger at the IGP stemmed from the fact that their notice to the IGP and the Ghana Police Administration about the ‘unprofessional’ conduct of some senior police officers at these two police stations had seen no action!

They accused many of the police officers at the two police stations of allegedly helping some self-seeking elders led by one Kwesi Alhaji to hire the services of notorious land-guards to allegedly beat the youth who stood up against Kwesi Alhaji and his followers for dabbling in reselling of already sold Gomoa Fetteh lands to unsuspecting land developers and organisations.

“We want to state clearly that the premises of the Kasoa-Millennium City Police District Command and the Millennium City Police Division are the places for notorious land-guards. The police officers train these land-guards to beat us in Gomoa Fetteh anytime we protest the illegal actions of Mr Kwasi Alhaji and his followers,” a resident in the area, Yaw Mensah, alleged.

Land-guards in league with police

According to him, “Kwesi Alhaji was in league with police officers and other self-seeking government officials who were allegedly supporting land-guards to brutalise we the youth and individual land developers who have legally bought lands from them at the Kasoa-Millennium City and adjoining communities.”

That frightening situation, Yaw Mensah stressed, required the urgent action of the police administration.

“It also urgently required the attention of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the NPP government to reshuffle the police officers at the station,” another resident, Mr Ernest Boadu, urged.

Further, Mohammed Sulley, an automatic mechanic resident in the area, accused senior police officers of allegedly using their wives to cook food on daily basis for the land-guards who have been tormenting them in Gomoa Fetteh.

However, they commended the Accra Regional Police Command on their efforts to flush out land-guards in the region, and stressed the urgent need for the Police Administration to extend same operation to the Kasoa-Millennium City.

Fear and insecurity

According to them, if the police were looking for an area that had become the headquarters for land-guards then it was the Kasoa-Millennium City.

They stated that this group of miscreants had become so notorious that the police at Kasoa-Millennium City District Command who were supposed to clamp down on their activities were unable to match them boot-for-boot, resulting in fear and insecurity in that part of the region.

They noted that lives were increasingly becoming dangerous for land developers and residents at Kasoa-Millennium City and its adjoining environs, because anybody can become a target or victim of these “scoundrels, wretched, lawless, villains, murderers and trespassers,” who have no consideration and respect for human lives.”
Appeal

To this end, they reiterated their appeal to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to impress upon the IGP to curb the menace by reshuffling his officers at the two stations.

According to them, the rise in land-guard activities in the said communities was as a result of a call on the Police Administration by President Akufo-Addo to flush out land-guards in the country.

Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu