Three persons; one female and two males have been caged at Amosima Police station of the Central Region. The three, arrested on Wednesday evening, was found culpable of crime when the traditional linguist of the Amosima traditional area reported the issue to the police.
Nana Ogyama Prince Akoto, the linguist of Amosima; a suburb town of the Cape Coast Metropolitan, had reported the three people when he saw them dumping waste (broken blocks) on a stool land. The said land, belonging to the Amosima traditional area, has been the centre of land theft in the Amosima township, Kofi Boadu of Kastle FM 90.3, said in his argument on Kastle FM’s Kabemame (My Voice) show yesterday evening.
In reacting to the news, Kofi, a spokesperson to the Amosima Traditional council and a Kastle FM presenter, Stated that it was necessary for the arrest of the three because of the tactics some residents of Amosima had been using in stealing stool lands.
They make it seem they are filling the area to curb flooding, but in reality, they will be filling to encroach and steal. That is the same tactics most people have used to steal a vast stool land.
How can we get lands to make development if all stool lands are stolen. This is not the first time someone is attempting to steal a stool land by dumping waste on the land. The broken blocks seen on the land was to be used to fill a foundation. We saw a foundation on the land when we went there. They were planning on building on the land when someone hinted to us of their plans.
We went there, and warn them of their unlawful attempt, but they never listened. If they hadn’t been arrested, they would have stolen the land, Kofi Boadu stated on Kastle FM yesterday evening.
From Kofi’s narration, the security officer, Linda Esi Agyemang, a security officer with Lamp Security Agency, and her two brothers, will not be set free but will be prosecuted to set as a deterrent to others. Esi and her brothers have been charged with land theft and unlawful deposition of waste on a protected area.
They will be arraigned before the Eguafo Circuit Court I today, Thursday 24 February. If found guilty of land theft and illegal deposition of waste, Esi and her brothers may be sentenced to a minimum of 8years each, per our criminal code under unlawful land acquisition.
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