FLUSH OUT DEVIANTS FROM KLOTTEY-KORLEY BEACH (p.18) 23-08-08

Story: Kofi Yeboah
FISHERMEN at Osu in the Klottey-Korley Constituency have appealed to the security agencies to flush out suspected armed robbers along the beach where their canoes dock.
According to them, a group of Nigerian and Liberian nationals, suspected to be armed robbers, had been using the area as their den.
The acting chief fisherman of Osu, Nii Apan Jamoja, told the Daily Graphic that the suspected armed robbers used an accommodation facility built by a certain man at the beach as their hideout.
He said the situation created the impression that the fishermen in the area were involved in armed robbery, adding that anytime they attempted to confront the suspects, the owner of the structure reported them to the police, who came to arrest and harass them.
Nii Jamoja said the suspected armed robbers had also turned the place into a wee-smoking joint and brothel and cited an instance when some of them were caught having sexual intercourse in a structure the fishermen used for the performance of rituals for bumper fish harvest.
“This is sacrilegious and bad omen. That is why we don’t catch enough fish these days,” he remarked.
Nii Jamoja said the activities of the developer were a major cause for the silting of the Klottey Lagoon.
He said the siting of the structure at the beach was inappropriate and appealed to the authorities concerned to take immediate action on the matter.
Another fisherman, Nii Armah (aka Tito Lee), who added his voice to the concerns expressed by the acting chief fisherman, said although they could confront the situation on their own, they had been patient all this while because they did not want violence.
He, therefore, appealed to the security agencies to clear the area of such deviants.