At Kasoa Prison Junction in the Central Region, Awutu Senya East Municipality, tensions flared as more than two hundred angry young people fought with military personnel and law enforcement over 11 acres of land.
The police were provided with reports by the Lands Commission indicating that two parties are claiming ownership of the contested land.
Adom News spoke with one of the claimants, who revealed that he had been in possession of the land for 15 years after purchasing it in 2008.
He refuted the second claimant’s purported offer to sell him the same land.
The first claimant is believed to have assisted the trespasser’s detention since the second claimant brought police officers to develop the area despite the struggle on the land.
The second claimant then apparently went to the Vice President’s office to ask for help from the Director of Operations so that military soldiers could take the land by force.
Police officers from Kasoa and the Central East Regional Police Command have been sent to the region in response to the growing tensions in order to keep the peace and stop the situation from getting worse.
