The police have expressed helplessness at prosecuting land guards arrested since, they bemoan, there is no legislation condemning their activities.
The police have, therefore, appealed to the country’s lawmakers to, as a matter of urgency, promulgate laws that will stop the activities of land guards.
The appeal was made by Greater Accra Region Commander of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Christian Tetteh Yohuno, on Monday, January 27, 2014 after his Command rounded up a gang of armed robbers believed to be land guards at Denchira in the Ga South Municipality.
Among the arrested was a self-styled pastor, the police told journalists.
A search conducted on the suspects found one each of pump action gun, single barrel gun and a pistol, 11 cartridges, six machetes and a knife.
“We will process them on these weapons we have retrieved from them,” DCOP Yohuno said, “and if it is an assault or an attack threatening…on people they came into confrontation with, we will handle them accordingly.”
He said the police are law enforcers and so, are ready to enforce any legislation that will proscribe the activities of land guards.
“We have the people who make laws and we the police are the people who enforce the laws that they make and so [the landward menace] is a general concern.”
