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The Ankobeahene of Gomoa Fetteh, Nana Ahomkah, has appealed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and President John Mahama to bring the leader of the dreaded land guards group, Kwesi Alhaji and the Central Regional Police Commander, ACP to book.

This was in relation to an ordeal he suffered in the hands of the alleged land guard’s leader.

Narrating his ordeal to this paper Nana Ahomka indicated that, on the 27th day of August 2015, after court proceedings at Agona Swedru, the land guards group stormed the Swedru Divisional Police Station, where he (Nana Ahomka) and a few elders had gone to transact some other business, with the leader threatening to kill him.

According to the Ankobeahene, on the fateful 27th, true to their threats, the group stormed his residence in Gomoa Fetteh with vehicle loads of land guards, wielding machetes, guns, clubs and other offensive weapons, with which they beat and inflicted sever machete wounds on him, leaving him unconscious.

He further revealed that the incidence has rendered him half blind, as he could see with just one eye. In addition, he had to visit the hospital for checkup and medication every week after the incidence.

A report was made at the Police Station, and a Police Medical Report attained subsequently. The Divisional Police has ever since turned deaf ear to his plight, and nothing has so far been done about it.

According to the Chief, the Police, especially the Central Regional Commander and others at the locality are the ones giving the land guard group and their leader power to perpetuate evil with impunity.

According to him, the leader of the group calls the Commander always and even alleges that the Police are in his pocket, and that no Police can arrest him; in spite of any criminal act he perpetuates.

Due to the unresponsive attitude of the Police, and the seeming bond that exists between the Police and the land guard group, a petition has been submitted to the Police Headquarters on the matter for the attention and immediate intervention of the Inspector General of Police (IGP).

According to him, the land guard group numbering about two hundred has divided themselves with about hundred terrorizing citizens of the community and the other hundred terrorizing individuals and organizations which have land in the area.

These are in relation to the protracted chieftaincy dispute that has engulfed the area for years. The self-styled chief, Nana Abore Yamoah brought the land guard group to help him usurped authority and also sell lands, he added; though he is under court injunction preventing him (Abore Yamoah) from dealing in land, and also acting like a chief since 2010 and 2005 respectively.

The community is on the verge of complete chaos if authorities are not decisive on the issues, he warned.

He therefore appealed to the president to as a matter of urgency intervene, especially since Ghana is approaching election 2016, with elements of national saboteurs who do not want the peace of Ghana are at work.