Greater than 150 residents of Kasoa Kumbe, a suburb of Opeikuma within the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Area, have clashed with law enforcement officials and people believed to be landguards throughout a forced eviction.
Stories point out that the incident, which occurred within the early hours of Friday, twenty first February, escalated when residents confronted officers trying to forcibly take away them from their properties amid an ongoing land dispute.
The affected residents had been left stranded after officers from the Central East Regional Police Command reportedly evicted them, citing a courtroom ruling in favour of Kwame Baafi, who claims possession of over 10 acres of land.
Nevertheless, the residents insist they obtained no prior discover earlier than the eviction.
In an try to withstand the eviction, residents confronted the police and practically 100 landguards, resulting in chaos as properties had been locked up.
One affected resident expressed frustration:
I used to be instructed that Mr Baafi had despatched folks to evict us from our properties, and true to this, the Ghana Police Service, Kasoa Division, has taken the legislation into their very own palms and recruited landguards to evict us over a courtroom case we all know nothing about.
One other distressed resident recounted her ordeal:
They stormed my room, threw out my belongings, and marked my residence with paint, giving me simply 5 minutes to depart. Sure, they’ve destroyed my belongings.
The Chief of Gomoa Kumbe, Nana Okoboban Kwao II, expressed shock on the police’s involvement within the eviction, questioning the legitimacy of the operation. He maintained that the appeals courtroom had dominated within the conventional council’s favour.
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