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DAILY HERITAGE DIGITAL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2020
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Family cries for justice
NEWS DESK REPORT
• Over 50-yr-old woman’s death
ATRACKLOAD of Police
Officers who claim to have
come from the Accra Regional
Police Command accompanied
by heavily build
land guards are alleged to have forcibly
broke into the houses of tenants at Community
18, Lashibi, leading to the hospitalisation
of a 50-year-old woman, Sylvia
Ahenakwa, and her subsequent death.
Mr Davis Ekey, one of the affected
tenants, told the media that Mr Francis
Afotey Okley and Jonas Alfred Carbo, accompanied
by the police and land guards,
adding that the land at the centre of the
litigation belonged to their late father and
that they had secured a document from
the court to eject all tenants from the land.
The incident was said to have occurred
on February 18, 2020 around 6a.m.
He said
when he perused
the court
documents, it
did not bear
their names but
rather those of
Devtraco Estate
and Lands
Commission.
As a result,
Mr Ekey said he
told the land
guards and the
police they did
not have the
right to paste
the court document
on their
property but
they rebuffed
their request and
broke into their
house and threw
their belongings
outside and
locked their
rooms with padlocks
and left.
He said they
then went to an
adjoining house
where Mr and
Mrs Ahenakwa residesd and in their bid to
forcibly enter their rooms, a disagreement
and misunderstanding ensued, leading to
the pushing of Madam Ahenakwa.
He said Madam Ahenakwa fell and hit
her head against the cement floor, got injured
in her head, and bled profusely,
adding that her son, Clifford Ahenakwa,
pleaded with the police to take his mother
in their vehicle to the hospital but the police
refused.
Mr Ekey said Clifford then haired a taxi
to convey her mother to the Neapty Clinic
at Community 18, Lashibi and he reported
later that her mother died at the hospital.
The son of the deceased said some
community 18 police officers later came
for the body and deposited it at the Police
Hospital in Accra.
Clifford appealed to the Inspector
• The police supervising the ejection exercise
General of Police to intervene in the matter
to help them get justice by arresting all
people who played a part in the death of
her mother.
The son of the
deceased said
some community
18 police officers
later came for the
body and
deposited it at the
Police Hospital in
Accra.
• Mrs Sylvia Ahenakwa on the hospital
bed prior to her death
When contacted, Mr Kenneth Tetteh,
Secretary to the Kwedonu family, said to
they are the owners of the land, and
backed his claims with land documents,
stressing that a 2017 court ruling affirmed
their title to the land.
He has therefore appealed to persons
who are living at HFC and Devtraco Estate,
Cambodia, Collins Dauda, Kotobabi
One and Two and Light Industry Area and
including all lands belonging to the Kweidonu
family, to come to the family and
regularize their stay on the land with the
family by end of March 2020.
Mr Tetteh empathized with tenants
who were affected by the barbaric acts
perpetrated by the police and the land
guard, saying they had informed their
lawyers to take up the matter in order for
affected individuals to get justice.
He appealed to the IGP to use his
good offices to help provide security to
the affected tenants because of the incessant
harassment by the land guards.
Police reaction
In a telephone interview, the Divisional
Commander of Baatsona police, Chief Inspector
Julius Gbegesi,
while
confirming the incident,
said the matter
was currently
before the Accra
Regional Public Relations
Officer
(PRO) of the Ghana
Police Service and
therefore could not
comment further.
Meanwhile, efforts
to reach ASP Afia
Tenge, the Regional
Police PRO, were unsuccessful
as calls to
cellphone went unanswered.
Text message
sent to her phone
number was not responded
to either as of
the time of going to
press.