Residents of Mankata in the Assin South District of the Central Region have invoked curses on some military personnel and forest guards over what they described as unnecessary brutality mounted on 19 years old Forgive Alormenu and her Siblings and called on the Management of the forest reserve to investigate.
The aggrieved residents venting their spleen said the forest guards numbering about 6 including one military officer with Pick Up Registration Number GS 2167-12 were wielding weapons and on their routine operations met 19 years old Forgive Alormenu and her siblings conveying cassava from the farm and were confronted by the personnel, suspected Forgive Alormenu and her siblings are informant to the illegal Chain Saw Operators, without provocation they subjected the victim to severe beatings.
“The military officer slapped me, used a thorn stick to beat me, in an attempt to strip me naked my other siblings intervene and saved by as I am speaking some of the thorns and still in my flesh after my uncle used a knife to remove them”.
The eyewitnesses spoke to Ahotor fm reporter Asonaba Kwame Oppong Nyarkoh.
Moreover, the mother of the victim, Faustina Visu said the officers fired about 4 gunshots in the process rendering them with fear and panic.
She however called on Assin Fosu District Forestry Manager, Nana Kwabena Agyapong, and the Police administration to thoroughly investigate and bring the officers to book else she will summon them to the gods.
Alexander Dogbe/Ahotoronline.com
