Residents of Appolonia in the Kpone Katamanso district in the Greater Accra region are enraged following the invasion of the area by heavily armed police officers and people suspected to be operatives of the National Security to allegedly protect the activities of deadly landguards in the area.
They claimed the heavily armed officers, led by one Inspector Lutakor stormed the area in a tinted black Landcruiser with a registration No. NR. 11 47- 16, to provide protection to some notorious landguards who were working on a disputed land.
Eyewitnesses to the scary incident said there was a near clash between some angry residents of the area and the dreaded armed officers who threatened to open fire on the residents if they dared to stop them from carrying out their activities.
According to one of the eyewitnesses, Inspector Lutakor told the residents they were sent by a top police officer from the police headquarters to assist the known landguards, led by one Moses Abusah to take possession of the disputed land.
Our sources noted that police officers from the Oyibi district police station were called in yet the leader of the deadly squad refused to listen to them claiming they had powerful connections in the office and presidency and that no superior police officer could touch them.
The residents also alleged that the leader of the landguards, Moses Abussah, who was also armed to the teeth, issued stern warning that he and his men would unleash mayhem on the residents if they resisted further their operations in the area.
They alleged that the leader of the landguards boasted openly that he had the Jubilee House, the office of the Presidency, in his pocket and that nobody could arrest him or any of his members for any reason.
The land in dispute, according to some of the residents who spoke to this paper belongs to one Madam Grace Ocloo of Marrace properties whose ownership is being challenge by another person in the area.
They said they were however surprised that the leader of the landguards came from nowhere and is now claiming ownership of the same and sold portions out to unsuspecting developers with such impunity.
According to our sources at the Property Fraud Unit of the Ghana Police Service at the Headquarters, the issue was investigated by the officers of the Unit who found that the said land rightfully belonged to Madam Grace Ocloo of Marrace properties.
Our sources at the Unit further told us that the docket was closed on the disputed land and the Unit urged any person claiming ownership of the same land to proceed to court to have the matter resolved.
Some of the residents said they are now living in constant fear since the landguards are getting the backing of some top police officers to carry on their barbaric activities in the area and called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare to heighten security in the area.
They also called on the IGP to fish out those rogue police officers and sanction them accordingly to deter other officers from engaging in such misconduct that consistently questions the professionalism in the police service.
