Gomoa Fetteh Land-guards Brouhaha: IGP Called To Reshuffle CID Officers-In Central East Police Region Now
The purposes and objectives of the Police Administration to create the new Central East Police Region which was headquartered in Millennium City of the Central Region to fight crimes across the communities under the jurisdiction of the region would not be meant if the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare didn't put his feet on the ground to reshuffle some police officers, particularly the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officers.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
The purposes and objectives of the Police Administration to create the new Central East Police Region which was headquartered in Millennium City of the Central Region to fight crimes across the communities under the jurisdiction of the region would not be meant if the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare didn't put his feet on the ground to reshuffle some police officers, particularly the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officers.
The conducts of majority of CID officers of the Central East Police Region which was carved out of its existing Central Regional Police Command, had been described by the land developers and residents in Gonna Kakraba, Fetteh, Dominase, Kasoa CP and Kasoa Millennium City Pentecost Area as unprofessional and shameful.
They pointed out that the continuous changing of the police commanders in the new police region would not solve the alarming problems. Rather it is the time for the IGP and Police Administration to transfer all the CID officers in the Central East Police Region.
In their view, they pointed out that the CID officers had unduly overstayed and needed to be posted elsewhere, because familiarity breeds contempt.
They argued that because these miscreants/land-guards people and CID officers had become too familiar with themselves, enforcement of the law has undoubtedly been difficult.
The residents led by their spokespersons, Mr Justice Yussif Musah and Mr.Yaw Donkoh Asare accused the CID officers for siding with the notorious land-guards and some unscrupulous individuals to visit severe brutalities on various developers who had genuinely and illegally bought their lands from the custodian owners of these communities.
According to them, if the police are looking for areas that have become the centres point or headquarters for land guard operations, then it is Gomoa Fetteh, Millennium City, Dominase Kasoa CP, Kasoa Pentecost, Gomoa Fetteh and Gomoah Kakraba.
Most of the victims of land guards menace in these communities who gave accounts to what happened to them accused police officers, particularly the CID officers of siding with land guards and watching unconcerned as innocent people are being brutalized by these armed men.
"One of the troubling and heartbreaking cases in these aforementioned communities that has become national issue and the police officers who are suppose to see to the enforcement of law and order, are rather the ones doing the worse to the land owners," the residents told journalists.
They commended the police administration for elevating the Millennium City District Police Command to the regional police status with the primary efforts to flush out the activities of land guards and other criminal in Millennium City, Gomoa Fetteh, Gomoa Dominase and their sorrounding communities in the region.
But they were quick to emphasize that "if the current IGP and Police Council never instituted contingency measures to change the CDI officers, the crime rates in connection of land-guards brutalities of the individual land developers and workers within these communities would still continue to increase."
They pointed out that the current policing system charactersed the investigations into the criminal activities of these miscreants in these communities by the police officers are very weak cited poor performance of the Head of Crime Unit of Central East Police Region of the Ghana Police Service.
"We are not happy about the work of the Crime officer of the region," they stated and called on the IGP to call the female police officer and her men to order.
"Anytime we have been bruatalised by the land-guards on our lands and we reported the incidents to the police officers of Central East Police Region, they would tell us that "As for the land-guards in these areas, we, the police officers cannot arrest them and that we the complainers should rather effect the arrest of the land-guards and bring them to the police for prosecution" the residents alleged.
"If the land-guards attacked us whenever these miscreants come to us on our lands to demand what the land-guards themselves termed as compensation fee ...so when we lodged the complaints with the Central East Police Region, the police would rather advise us to go and pay the money which the land-guards are demanding from us [land developers].
"...after that we were told by the land-guards themselves that they shared the said money they collected from us with some police officers ," the affected land developers told journalists in the press conference," the affected residents alleged.
Addressing the journalists, the residents who are victims indicated that land guards, apart from stealing people's landed properties with brutal force, they also indulge in other criminal activities like armed robbery and indiscriminate killings of innocent citizens.
They said life is increasingly becoming dangerous for residents in these areas, because anybody can become a target or victim of these ' scoundrels, wretched, lawless, villains, murderers and trespassers, who have no consideration and respect for human lives.'
They showed numbers of pictures of their building structures which have been destroyed by these land-guards. The residents tendered some photographs of the bruatalities meted out to some individual land developers and their workers in these communities to proof their cases.
"It will surprise you that some of the leaders of the land-guards are not even from Ghana, but sister African countries. They have built strong connections and acquaintances with people in the security forces and other high office holders as a cover up," they narrated.
This, they argued, sometimes makes it very difficult for these security men to cause the arrest of the land guards when they infringe upon the law.
'The challenge of these killings by the land guards is that some of them go unreported,' they said, and suggested to the police to first do a house cleaning exercise by reshuffling all the CID offers."
When reached in an interview with journalists for him to response to the allegations leveled against his officers, the Acting Central East Regional Commander Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr. David Senanu Eklu noted that he was not aware of these allegations leveled against his men and assured his outfit commitment to launch investigations into the these allegations.
According to the senior police officer, he just resumed office for the past three weeks but was quick to state that his office wouldn't shield any corrupt police officers under his watch.
He indicated that "l am concerned about the complaints of the individual land developers, stating that his outfit would soon arrange to meet the affected individuals to listen to their cases.
