According to Citi News, 33 people were arrested last week for vandalising properties belonging to the Golden Star Wassa Mine in Benso, Western Region. The illegal miners are said to have set ablaze 12 vehicles, including excavators, ambulances, and pick-up trucks, forcing the company’s employees to flee for their lives.

Gerard Hillary Osei Boakye, the company’s Head of Group Corporate Affairs, earlier told Citi News how they were attacked.

“We usually do our patrols to protect our concession which is required of us by law to be responsible for our boundaries and also prevent incursions, to make sure that community people, hunters, and farms are safe. On one such occasion which was Thursday, March 16, we encountered some illegal miners encroaching, we engaged them as part of our modus operandi and told them to move away”.

“They were interested in that area, so they came back and when they came back, we tried to ward them off with the help of the police. They dispersed again and apparently unconfirmed report reaching us is that they may have been injured in the cause of being dispersed. That probably infuriated them, and they came back to torch our vehicles and ran our security post down, destroyed our offices, basically burnt things down,” he explained.

Source: citinewsroom.com

Some Wa residents gathered today, March 10, at the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council’s forecourt to demand the release of the body of a 28-year-old man who was allegedly killed by police on March 8.

The residents, who are mostly young people, also demanded that the police clear the deceased of any wrongdoing before releasing the body for burial.

The young man, Abubakari Shahid, was killed by members of the Ghana Police Service’s anti-robbery unit for allegedly being a member of a robbery syndicate.

The angry residents, on the other hand, maintain that the deceased was not guilty of the crime charged against him.

The Regional Police Command has not yet issued an official statement in response to the allegations.

The police have arrested the key suspects in the murder of Imoro Sherrif, the soldier who was killed at Taifa Ashiaman on March 4, 2023, after a week of a sustained intelligence-led operation.

The arrest was made solely on the basis of police intelligence, with no military involvement.

On March 10, Trooper Imoro Sherif was laid to rest.

According to sources, the soldier was returning from Taifa and on his way to his home in Ashaiman’s Zongo-Laka when he was attacked and stabbed to death by unknown assailants.

Despite the fact that he was carrying a laptop and other electronic devices, the attackers only took his iPhone.

Following the murder, soldiers invaded Ashaiman on Tuesday, brutalising residents in the hope of apprehending the suspects.

Ghanaians have strongly condemned the soldiers’ invasion. Amnesty International Ghana has also condemned the military action.

“Amnesty International Ghana is against all forms of violence and human rights abuses and condemns the violence meted out by the military on civilians. The military is to take a step back and allow the Ghana Police Service to conduct thorough investigations into the unfortunate killing of the soldier,” it said in a statement.