Residents of the Appolonia Citadel Gate space within the Kpone Katamanso municipality say they really feel helpless and pissed off after Police allegedly accompanied a court docket bailiff to lock them out of their properties.
When Channel One Information visited the realm, some girls have been nonetheless locked inside their homes whereas others had damaged the padlocks to achieve entry.
Some residents resorted to utilizing ladders to climb over their fence partitions to get out and in of their compounds.
The affected landowners, after investigating on the Lands Fee, imagine they acquired the land from the rightful custodians.
Talking to Channel One Information, the residents known as on the Inspector Basic of Police to instruct his officers to cease intimidating them.
One resident recounted her ordeal, explaining how she was locked out of her house together with her youngster and needed to wait outdoors for hours till her husband arrived. The bailiff allegedly demanded a fee of GHS 2,000 to return their keys.
The residents declare they face every day harassment, with males on motorbikes posting notices of possession takeover by court docket order.
They’re urgently in search of help to resolve the scenario and regain entry to their properties, calling on the IGP and related stakeholders to research the matter.
“I didn’t know after choosing a fabric for my children after which I used to be making an attempt to come back out by the point I got here out they’d already pulled out my key from the again of the door and so they’ve introduced it to the entrance that they have already got my key that I ought to come out. I used to be like oh how can I come out like that? So, I begged them, I’m pleading with them I’ve just one little youngster right here so they need to have mercy on me.
“I didn’t take water; I didn’t take something so my child was simply crying after which we got here to take a seat out for like 4 hours and I known as my husband that he ought to come house and that we’re stranded. They took our key away they mentioned except we carry cash of about two thousand cedis earlier than they offer us our key.”