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| Posted on: 2007-Jan-05 GNA |
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The police have been able to control to a degree the recent spate of armed robbery, but there can be no denying the fact that the communities are not yet free from serious criminal activities.
This time, it is the senseless killing of people that seems to be emerging in some communities. So far, there have been three reported cases in the Ashanti, Volta and Greater Accra regions.
Of much concern are the indications that some of the murders are connected to chieftaincy disputes.
On January 1, this year, a dawn shooting occurred at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region in which the police believed was the first murder case of this year. A 95-year-old man Numo Narh Mensah was murdered.
This aside, there had been other murders in two communities in the Volta and in Ashanti regions.
In the case of the former, reports said in the night of December 12, Nana Akola Baselane, 70, was shot dead in his bed by an assassin. That same day, the Chief of Atwima Achiase-Mim, near Nkawie, was also reportedly shot dead in his bathroom.
Last Wednesday, the Police Public Affairs Directorate gave a grim warning that the police would not compromise with anybody who would be arrested for committing such crimes.
The acting head of the directorate, DSP Kwasi Ofori, told the Times in an interview in Accra that the police were particularly worried about the recent developments.
We believe that if the alarming situation is to be corrected, much needs to be done now before it gets out of hand.
In this regard, we expect the people in the communities to show interest in what happens in their communities and not look on unconcerned and expect outsiders, especially the police to come and solve the crimes with no help from them.
In the case of the affected communities, we believe that the people have either kept their suspicions to themselves for reasons known to themselves or that they know the assassins but are afraid to report them to the law enforcement agencies to be dealt with.
This position will not help anybody. The reality is that if we are not able to control these murders, there is no knowing who the next target will be. Not only that, we will have to pay a heavy price for which future generation will not forgive us.
People in the various communities are expected to face the situation with courage and a good sense of national duty and report the criminals in their midst to the police for their own safety.
And as it is widely believed that some of the murders have something to do with chieftaincy disputes, we hope that the Regional and National Houses of Chiefs will look into chieftaincy disputes in the affected areas and deal with them expeditiously.
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