Two young men who posed as military men and harassed some residents of Gomoa Obom near Kasoa, in the Central Region has been arrested by the Kasoa police.
The two men, Abu Barkah Abdulah 34 and Ali Abdul Ganihu 37 clad in military uniforms, were arrested on Tuesday after assaulting and threatening their victims in a land dispute and demolishing structures in the area.
The Kasoa District Police Commander, Supritendent Stephen Ahiatafu briefing the media said the suspects committed the said offense in support of some group of people who are in a dispute with the youth of the area.
The issue which did not go down well with the youth of the area clashed with the ‘military men’ after they forcefully ejected the residents from the land.
Supt Stephen Ahiatafu added that, luck eluded the military men after some police officers rushed to the scene and arrested them.
An identification of the suspects at the Kasoa Police Division by military officers from the Ghana Military Police Headquarters, Burma Camp, turned out that the two arrested men are not officers of the Ghana Military but labourers at the camp.
Some items believed to have been used by the fake soldiers for attacking residents were also retrieved.
Supt. Stephen Ahiatafu said the suspects are currently in police custody pending further investigation.
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