Chief Commends IGP For Flashing Out Landguards At Akim Abuakwa

Nana Baffour Kwabena Baah, who is the Akwan Srahene (intermediary) of Kyebi Apapam, has commended the Inspector General of the Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, for helping to reduce the land-guard menace in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Area.He said land-guards had been disturbing the peace of the area for the past

years, forcefully taking over the lands, engaging in sand winning and threatening the lives of farmers with guns and other dangerous weapons.However, Nana Baah said the IGP had been able to work with his team to reduce their activities to the barest minimum. Nana Baah, who is also the Second-in-Command of the Okyeman Land

Protection Taskforce, said this at Nsawam after he had toured some communities within the Okyeman State in the Eastern Region. He mentioned some communities he visited as Kyekyewere, Suhum, Asuboi, Budu, Amanase, Coaltar, Adoagyiri, and Teacher Mante to interact with the chiefs to avoid engaging the services of land-guards. He said Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin, the Okyehene, was

the sole owner of Okyeman lands, which stretched from the Adoagyiri to Jejeti in the Eastern Region and needed entrepreneurs to invest in the land. Okyehene, therefore, formed the Okyeman Land Protection Taskforce to also ensure that the lands were protected from encroachers, especially land-guards, who also derailed development efforts, he said.