The Akyem New Tafo Police of the Eastern Regional Police Command is on the lookout for four men after they were caught destroying a church building this morning. The men, identified as Francis Peppeh, 31, Adadi Stephen, 30, Kelvin Manu, 36, and Laryea Nii Quae, 40, were said to have destroyed a building belonging to the New Tafo Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Stephen Adadi, the youngest of the men, was first to destroy the front elevation wall of the church before Kelvin Manu and Francis Peppeh started destroying the main entrance to the church auditor. Laryea Nii Quae, the eldest of the men, was said to have been the one who supervised the demolition, Elder Pam hinted.
Elder Pam Lawson, an elder and caretaker of the New Tafo SDA church building, confirmed that the four men destroyed the church building because of a ground fee. They said we didn’t pay ground fees on the land. They threatened to pull down the church on many occasions because of the ground fees we didn’t pay to them.
They measured the ground fees by the number of pillars in the building and told us, the total cost will be GH¢90 by the number of pillars in the building. There are eleven pillars in the building and that brought an estimated ground fee amount of GH¢990.
They demanded the money last night and gave us a final warning of destroying the building today if we failed to pay the money, Elder Pam Lawson confirmed to the police this morning. The four men took to their heels when they saw the New Tafo Police approaching the church building and has since not been found.
They were in the process of destroying the building when Elder Pam Lawson reported the issue to the police. The men are believed to be hiding in Old Tafo, a town after New Tafo
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