Some Angry residents of Koforidua – Two-Stream community in the Eastern regional capital are threatening to attack a Qnet office located in the community if they refuse to vacate from the area.
The youth have given them a week’s ultimatum to vacate from the premises where they are operating.
According to some of the angry youth, the operation of Qnet in the area has resulted in a sharp rise in theft and burglary cases in the area.
They believe dozens of strangers camped in a house serving as Qnet office are responsible since the victims a battling hunger.
“They came to this community a year ago and a lot of strangers most from the Volta region are just here walking around that they are working for Qnet. You see them moving around always on phone begging for money to buy food. So we suspect that their presence here is what has resulted in increasing theft. We have issued a week ultimatum to them to leave else we will burn the house “Convener of the youth told mybrytfmonline.com on condition of anonymity.
The Assembly member for Two-stream electoral area Citizen Tetteh says his attention has been drawn to the company hence spoken to the appropriate authorities in charge.
In January this year, some Zongo youth in Koforidua armed with sticks and cutlasses on board about three vehicles and stormed a house being used by some ECOWAS nationals as Qnet Office to defraud their countrymen and women under the guise of securing them jobs in COCOBOD, mining Industry among others only to be held hostage.
They attacked the house and destroyed properties therein. It took the intervention of the Police to save the suspects and their victims.
Two agents arrested
Meanwhile, two (2) agents of Qnet have been arrested by Adweso District Police Command in the Eastern Region for allegedly holding a 26-year-old hostage and defrauding him under pretense.
The suspects are Pafio Agordo, 20, and Wisdom Korda, 21.
One of the suspects Wisdom Korda lured the victim who was his friend to come to Koforidua to be employed in a company that imports goods for Ghc800 weekly salary.
Unknowingly, the company was Qnet which the agents held the victim hostage in a rented apartment at Two-streams a suburb of Koforidua when he arrived for inquiries about the company.
According to the victim, the agents seized his phone and forced him to defraud his mother and Pastor an amount of Ghc900 and Ghc350 respectively which they took all the monies from him.
He lamented that the agents denied him food hence had to “eat raw gari without sugar nothing at all I eat it raw for since my detention there. Sometimes we go to people’s houses to steal unripe oranges to eat because the hunger is too much”
It took the intervention of the Victim’s family to report the incident to the police who set him free after arresting the Suspects.
Uncle to the victim, Prosper Tsormana wants the government to take a serious look into the operations of Qnet and facilitate a decision by the Attorney General to dissolve the company.
He said thousands of youth have been held hostage, defrauded, and being used to defraud many others in the name of network marketing.
Many Qnet Agents are operating in various parts of the Eastern region defrauding many youths mostly from other regions whereas those in the Eastern region are sent to Roger regions.
The agents include Burkinabes, Togolese, Nigerians, and Malians.
Few of the agents have been arrested and put before the court after their victims reported to the police.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
