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Use
of arms banned in Anloga and environs
Anloga, (V/R), Nov.3, Ghanadot/GNA- The Ministry of Interior
has placed a ban on the carrying of arms in and around
Anloga in the Volta Region and an Executive Instrument
issued to this effect.
Mr. Kwamena Bartels, Interior Minister, announced the
measure when he addressed police personnel dispatched to
maintain peace at Anloga, following chieftaincy clashes
there on Thursday, in which four people including a police
constable were killed.
The Minister of Interior was at Anloga together with Mr.
Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister of Defence and Mr. Joe Ghartey,
the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice to assess the
situation on the ground.
They were taken round the scenes of the clashes including
where the body of the police constable was damped near a
lagoon and also visited the injured at the Keta District
Hospital.
Mr. Bartels on Thursday announced an imposition of a
dusk-to-dawn curfew on Anloga as part of measures to put the
situation under control.
He commended the police for exercising maximum restraint and
acting professionally even though they lost a colleague in
the fray.
Mr. Bartels reminded the police that the crisis was not over
and that they would be required to do their very best to
enforce law and order, peace and stability in the area while
upholding the rights of peace loving people in the area.
Addressing a contingent of soldiers, Mr. Dapaah expressed
confidence that they would put their peacekeeping
experiences both locally and internationally to good effect
at Anloga.
He asserted that about 99 percent or more of the people at
Anloga and its environs were peaceful and that only a few
people were responsible for the trouble there.
Mr. Dapaah assured the soldiers that all the logistics and
materials required for their operations would be put at
their disposal.
Except for Anloga where an atmosphere of apprehension could
be felt with most of the people keeping to their homes, life
in the surrounding communities appeared undisturbed as
people were seen on their vegetable farms along the lagoon
on Saturday while others went about their businesses.
GNA
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