Ga Tettegu Youth Gang on prowl as its Members terrorize  Residents with machetes 

A gang of youth are preying on law-abiding residents, particularly landowners in Tetegu, a suburb of Accra.

The gang, whose members are in their mid-30s and 50s, are always armed to the teeth almost daily, and the mere mention of this so-called youth gang known as “Land guards” stirs fear and anger.

Their modus operandi includes vandalising building projects worth thousands of Ghana Cedis and also beating innocent landowners to a pulp.

They also torment property owners and stop them from continuing with any further development of their projects.

Apart from visiting mayhem on individual citizens, Soireenews gathered that members of this youth gang who sometimes wield cudgels, sledgehammers and crowbars extend their animalistic behaviours to estate developers. 

The latest attack was visited by some people on July 19, 2021, when there were some serious land guards crushed and yet the case has been hanging.

There were serious injuries and gun exchange which one pump action was retrieved from the land guards another pending pistol in their custody.

The very worrying development is creating unnecessary tension and confusion in the area.

And in the wake of their terrorising, a group calling itself Concerned Citizens of Tetegu has raised a red flag about the development.

They have called on the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, too, as a matter of urgency, to deploy police officers to the area to mount surveillance in the town to help flush out this gang.

"We are always in fear because this gang can strike at any time. And they come always fully armed and anyone who dares challenges them is beaten to a pulp.”

"The most serious one is that even when innocent persons are in their rooms, members of this gang enter forcefully to assault them with cutlasses.

"When such assaults take place and are reported at Tetegu Police and GICEL Police stations, action(s) are not taken,” a distraught resident narrated his ordeal with the gang to Soireenews.

The resident who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of his life disclosed the latest incident witnessed members of this gang mercilessly beat innocent persons.

“But the sad aspect was that the police at GICEL took no action after the matter was reported to them,” he lamented

They visibly worried Tetegu residents could not fathom why the police will not act when such brutalities are reported to them.

This gang has no respect for the chief of the town, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Weija-Gbawe and even the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Constituency.

“In our view, the lack of action from the police shows that they have been compromised,” some of the residents alleged.

They pointed out that they know that criminal cases must go to the law courts, but not to be settled out of court by setting the people free. 

"They do not respect anybody at all and in fact, these are people living in Tetegu as citizens. This recalcitrant person always use guns to harass and threaten people, but if you report them to the police then the police set them free which enables them to continue with their nefarious activities,” they said.

"Now we the concerned citizens want to ask whether nothing can be done to stop this kind of indiscipline at Tetegu. 

“We are asking questions because when even you sleep in your own room, these same people can come and threaten you and even harm innocent persons with sharp tools or cutlasses. 

"Now, if any matter rises, and leads to the police station (GICEL and Tetegu) the suspects are freed. To this extent, we the residents in Tetegu are living in fear," they bemoaned.

Against this background, the residents further stressed the urgent need for the new IGP to take drastic action against his officers at both GICEL and Tetegu Police.

They added that "these indisciplined people forcibly demand what they call digging fee from unsuspecting developers and builders of new houses, and even chase and inflict cutlass wounds on people if they decline to pay these illegals fees or monies."

They entreated the IGP that "what we the concerned citizens are saying could be verified from our Hon Assemblyman of Tetegu."

Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater Accra Regional Correspondent