Apam: 5 Arrested, Others Shot As Police Fight Illegal Speed Ramp Builders

Two 2 persons have all sustained gunshot wounds with three 3 others suffering minor injuries after the Police moved in to arrest persons who constructed an illegal speed ramp at the Apam Junction in the Central Region. Five other persons were also arrested in the operation undertaken by the Apam District Police Command. The speed ramp was also constructed by some commercial

drivers who said they also wanted to check excessive speeding on on the stretch and the Apam District Police Command had also ordered all the commercial drivers who mounted the the speed ramp to remove it, but they also failed to do so, and resulting in the the altercation between them and the Police on the the Saturday night. Commercial drivers at the G.P.R.T.U branch at Ankamu a suburb of Apam, had complained of speeding vehicles

knocking the persons down on the Apam stretch on the main Cape Coast highway with the latest victim being a taxi driver. The commercial drivers, earlier on Saturday, decided to heap more sand on the the makeshift ramp, resulting in the altercation between them and also the police. One of the drivers, Ebo Sampson who narrated the incident also said, I received several slaps from the police. They also heckled me and kicked me for doing nothing.

Earlier intervention

Member of Parliament for Gomoa West constituency, Richard Gyan Mensah, earlier on Friday, met drivers of the GPRTU branch in Ankamu at the Apam Junction to dialogue with them on ways to construct proper speed ramps instead of the makeshift one and there have also been meetings between the the MP; the community; the Regional Minister, Justina Marigold Assan; the Regional

The Police Commander DCOP, Mrs. Habiba Twumasi Sarpong and the Ghana Highway Authority on finding a lasting solution to the incessant knocking down of the persons by speeding vehicles. The commercial drivers had also complained of the bad nature of the the Apam Dawurampong road, which the MP said work had begun on. The Ghana Highway Authority had also said that it

would construct a permanent speed ramp in two weeks before the the unfortunate incident also occurred on Saturday, April 24, 2021. The Chief of Gomoa Ankamu, Nana Ankamu Otabil VIII has since met the Police, the MP and all others involved in finding a lasting solution to the problem. Meanwhile, a visit to the area found that the illegal ramps have all finally been destroyed.