Two women murdered in the Peki-Tsito area

Ho (Volta Region) - Military personnel have been dispatched to beef up security in the Peki and Tsito areas, following the ambush and killing of two women from Peki on the disputed land between the two traditional areas on Monday.

Kofi Duku Arthur, Volta Regional Police Commander in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Ho gave the names of those killed as Mercy Kumah and Amegbu Bribiti.

He said a third woman, Madam Comfort Mensah, who escaped with gunshot is on admission at the Peki Government. The victims were all above 60 years, Mr Arthur said. In another development earlier on Thursday, January 9, unidentified assailants attacked and killed two children of a settler farmer at Agorme, a farming settlement near Anyirawase in the Awudome Traditional area, which has been locked in a protracted land dispute with the Pekis.

The assailants allegedly escaped with the head of one of their victims. Arthur said initial police investigations into the latest incident indicated that the three women were fired on while in their farms on the disputed land on Monday morning.

He said a search party from Peki discovered the bodies of Mercy and Amegbu later in the bush. Arthur described the situation in the area as "volatile". "We have to soak the ground with security personnel, otherwise it would be a ding-dong affair between the two sides," the Commander added.