Assistant leader of the Nungua Youth Traditional Area Frederick Okley Ashong, has revealed that some soldiers from the Southern Command have been brutalising people in the vicinity indiscriminately.
The youths in the area alleged that government took over their land for several years which was initially intended for commercial purposes but has been sold to individuals.
In an interview this morning on Amanie fm with Nii Sackey as host, the assistant leader of the youth group, Frederick Ashong describing the situation, stated that some portions of the land have been sold to some individual estate companies.
“We have noticed that some portions of the land has been sold for an undisclosed amount to golf city, Regimanuel, Emefa Estate, Azumah Estate, Vivian Farm, Funeral Home, and MF Estate.
“What is left is what we want to take for our children, now we are fed up in Nungua here, we have no land anywhere again and here to the soldiers are beating us”, he said.
However, he called on the government to intervene.
“We are calling on the president, Nana Akuffo Addo to hear us out, we are suffering here. We can’t fight the military men and policemen, so we are pleading with the government to act quickly in order to solve this issue”. Mr. Ashong hinted.
Meanwhile according to Mr. Ashong, Nana Akuffo Addo then a presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on his campaign tour to Nungua had promised to return the land to them because the government was not using it for the intended purpose when voted into power.
“About some fews years back, during the campaign tour, president Akuffo Addo visited us and promise to retrieve all the lands the has been sold. So we had the trust and voted for him.
“But ever since we voted for him, Akuffo Addo never stepped foot here but has employed soldiers and security officers to guard the land and has since been beating us, anytime we try to approach the land”. He stressed.
A victim who only gave her name as Abena claimed to have a plot of land in the area and alleged that her workers have been beaten severely by the soldiers.
She said that they had heard the government had sold the land to some Chinese but with the impact of COVID-19 on families, the government should rather be protecting its citizens, not to be unleashing soldiers on them.
