Okyeman Akwansrahene Baffour Asiedu Bekoe
The Okyeman Environmental Protection Brigade has reported that landguards working for an unnamed estate developer within Adoagyiri and Okanta have planned a reprisal attack against them.
The brigade intercepted the plot in a voice recording on a certain WhatsApp platform.
Addressing the media at Kyebi over the weekend, Okyeman Akwansrahene Baffour Asiedu Bekoe stated that the land guards, posing as police informants, are part of a syndicate terrorizing farmers and landowners in Okanta and its surrounding areas.
He explained that the Environmental Protection Brigade received reports of land guards terrorizing residents of Okanta, arrested them, and handed them over to the police at Kyebi.
Baffour Asiedu Bekoe noted that the police released the suspects after 48 hours and then conspired to attack members of the Okyeman Environmental Protection Brigade.
The Okyeman Akwansrahene revealed that the land guards circulated pictures of the brigade's leaders on a WhatsApp platform, inciting their members to target them.
Baffour Asiedu Bekoe has reported the plot to the police, which is currently under investigation.
This incident follows the killing of 28-year-old Ofei Noah, a member of the brigade, who was murdered two months ago.
Noah was killed, and three brigade members sustained multiple gunshot wounds while returning from their usual patrol around Adeiso. They were ambushed in a nearby village.
Ofei Noah was laid to rest over the weekend.
Meanwhile, Baffour Asiedu Bekoe asserts that the Environmental Protection Brigade will not be intimidated by the threats and will not abandon its duty to protect Okyeman's property.
He declared that all lands from Adoagyiri to Jejeti, Dome Faase, Asamankese, Adeiso, and their environs remain the property of the Overlord of the Akyem Abuakwa State, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin.
As a result, any transfer of lands without the consent and agreement of the Okyenhene is invalid.
He advised all parties who have acquired lands from third parties to visit the Okyeman Stool Lands secretariat at Kyebi to regularize their documents or face consequences.
Baffour Asiedu Bekoe urged security agencies to assist in curbing the landguard problem in the area.
He affirmed that the Okyeman Environmental Protection Brigade was founded to safeguard Okyeman's property, and they are committed to this mission.
