Tension is brewing at Kodiabe over the landgaurd invasion.
The Chiefs and people of Kordiabe, a peri-urban community in Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region have therefore called on the Inspector General of Police, James Oppong Boanuh to commission an investigation into the violent invasion of the Community by gun-wielding men to believe to be land guards.
Dozens of gun and machete-wielding men besieged the community Sunday, April 25, 2021, mercilessly beat up some residents and pulled down some ongoing structures. Two chiefs- Mankralo Tetteh Wayo and Nene Padi Wayo as well as an Assemblymember Godwin Martey, escaped death having been rescued by the youth to a hideout.
There was complete pandemonium in the community.
Addressing the media, Mankralo of Shai Traditional area, Nene Narh Padi Wayo III said, “we are calling on the President, the Interior Minister, and IGP with immediate effect to call the Doryumu Police to act on this issue. Once again, we call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to give urgency to this demand within 48 hours because our people are leaving in total fear. The people of Kordiabe especially the youth are getting agitated and we cannot control their anger any longer. We are ready to protect and defend the land from criminals”.
The Chief narrated that,” on Sunday the 25th of April 2021, the whole Kordiabe township was taken over by land guards suspected to have been brought by The Boy, who happens to be the third son of the late Paramount Chief of the Shai state”.
According to the chiefs, the people of Kordieba have lived in peace since settling in the area in1892 after migrating from Shai Hills, however, some few greedy individuals have times been disturbing the peace of the community and terrorizing residents with land guards in an attempt to violently take control of arable lands and other mineral resources particularly rock deposits in the community.
He said, residents, are ready to defend the land if the state fails.
The Chief of Kordiabe, Mankrado Narteh Wayo III, alleged that the local police have been compromised therefore fail to act whenever cases are reported to them.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
