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Report from Emmanuel ADU GYAMFI
A group of concerned citizens in Ghana is calling on the Ghana Police Service (GPS) as a matter of urgency, to prosecute all the perpetrators of the recent shooting of teenagers by security guards of Chinese illegal miners.
Last week, security guards protecting Chinese illegal miners shot some teenagers, killing one and injuring two at Sefwi Abrokofe, in the Sefwi Juaboso district in Ghana.
The Group has therefore produced the following communique seeking justice for the teenagers shot by a security officer of Chinese illegal miners.
These were contained in a press release on Monday, signed by Awula Serwah of Eco – Conscious Citizens and host of several concern citizens and Institutions, to press home their demand.
We the undersigned register our outrage at the shooting of teenagers by illegal miners at Sefwi Abrokofe, in the Sefwi Juaboso District.
She said according to the Police Service, the perpetrator of these crimes has now been arrested and is in police custody.
Md Serwah indicated that the Ghana Police Service has a mandate “to protect and preserve internal security of the country through law enforcement”.
“We urge the Police to act on its mandate, by protecting the Sefwi Abrokofe community from illegal miners”
“We also urge Operation Halt to end the activities of illegal miners in Sefwi Abrokofe and other communities including Sefwi Boinzan, Sefwi Agyemsndiem, Asempaneye, Kwawkrom, Mafia, and Bonsu Nkwanta” she emphasised.
The release stated that reports reaching us says that the Police arrested the brother of the deceased teenager before arresting the person who shot the teenagers.
“This is highly unbelievable. We find this as very worrying that a grieving family should be subjected to further trauma”
“We thank the Boinzan assembly man for securing the release of the teenager who was arrested” it stated.
Md Serwah noted that the perception should not be that there is a pattern of protecting alleged criminals rather than those whose safety and livelihood is being threatened.
Recently, she stressed, some Environmental Activists in Assemkrom trying to protect their environment from illegal miners were arrested on what they believe to be trumped up charges.
“Our information is that the teenagers took the advice of the President to be “active citizens, not spectators”, and were protecting their environment from the destructive activities of illegal miners” the group added.
The Concern citizens bemoaned how the teenagers put their lives on the line, and sadly one lost his life. This is not the first time young people protecting the environment have been killed.
Md Serwah said Ghanaians have a constitutional right to feel safe in their own country. Armed illegal miners pose a clear and present danger.
“We respectfully call on His Excellency the President to focus on restoring the constitutional and democratic rights of Ghanaians that have been snatched by armed illegal miners” the release requested.
The Group later entreated political authorities to end the activities of illegal miners who have invaded our communities and ensure that sanity is restored, before contemplating invading Niger or any other urgency.
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