The Apapam Akwansrahene of the Akyem Traditional Area (ATA) in the Eastern Region, Baffour Kwabena Baah, has called on the Eastern Regional Police Command to institute a full-scale investigation into the killing of a 26-year-old man, famously known as Offei Noah and a member of Okyenman Taskforce, with some sense of urgency.
According to Baffour Kwabena Baah, the full investigation and prosecution of the perpetrators would bring about peace in the area.
The Apapam Akwansrahene, who is also the leader of the Okyenman Taskforce, however, warned of a possible retaliation against residents of Yaw Kwasi, a farming community near Adeiso, in the Upper West Akim municipality, if nothing was done about the situation.
According to the tough spoken chief, the Okyenman Taskforce and the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional council would not entertain anything apart from bringing the perpetrators to justice.
He stated that: “If the police fail to act swiftly by arresting and prosecuting any person or group of people who perpetuated the unsightly act, they will also go back to the community this time around well prepared”.
The threat of the Apapam Awansrahene follows the alleged shooting of Offei Noah, a member of Okyenman Taskforce, with others sustaining various degrees of injuries, when returning from a site at Yaw Kwesi, near Adeiso.
The Apapam Akwansrahene made this known in an interview with a cross-section of the media, shortly after he and some family members of the deceased visited the Adeiso Police station to establish the fact and progress on the matter.
According to him, he could not sleep since the incident happened.
Background
Offei Noah was killed, with others sustaining injuries in a gun attack at Adeiso, in the Eastern region recently.
According to reports, the task force was ambushed by some unknown people on their return from Adeiso, after they had gone to provide security for a 2,500-acre Oil Plantation company at Adeiso.
