District Chief Executive for Ellembelle Kwasi Bonzo has insisted the Police cannot be trusted to handle the issue surrounding the missing excavators.
According to him the Police have something to hide, looking at the manner in which the matter is being handled.
Addressing journalists at the site of the missing excavators, the DCE noted the Police cannot be trusted to investigate a matter they themselves are an interested party. “We cannot trust the police to investigate this issue since they themselves are an interested party,” he said.
Mr. Bonzo further revealed that the man who the police are referring to as his Special Aide is rather a member of the District Mining Committee which was inaugurated by the deputy minister of Lands and Natural Resources.
He, however, disclosed that he has not stated anywhere that the excavators were in the custody of the police at the police station but rather two officers were brought to the site to purposely guard the excavators.
Kwasi Bonzu, however disclosed that, he was arrested on Friday September 2, 2022, after he went to the police station to write his statement and granted bail on following day which was Saturday.
“I went to the station after they had arrested the man they claimed to be my Special Aide and I was asked to write my statement after they told me I’m also under investigations. I was therefore detailed and was later released,” he stated. He is therefore calling for an independent investigations into the matter.
Two police officers with the Ellembelle Police Command in the Western Region on Wednesday August 31, 2022 allegedly abandoned two brand new excavators left in their care.
Unfortunately, the two brand new excavators are nowhere to be found a day after they were allegedly abandoned by the two police officers despite a frantic search for them at Ellembelle.
Narrating events leading to the bizarre spectacle, a livid District Chief Executive for Ellembelle who doubles as the Chairman of the District Security Council Kwasi Bonzo said he reported to the Divisional Police Commander ACP Dodzi Hlordzi of an ongoing illegal mining operation on the land of the Nkroful Agriculture Senior High School and needed officers to go and clampdown on them.
Unfortunately, the Divisional Commander told him there are no men for that operation. The Divisional Commander, after several minutes of persuasion, reluctantly released two officers according to the DCE.
Kwasi Bonzo narrated further that at about 5:30pm he received a call from the assigned member of the District Small Scale Mining Committee that the two police officers say they are leaving.
When asked why the District Mining Committee and National Intelligence Bureau team could not immobilise the two machines, he explained that no mechanic was willing to help.
Left with no option, the District Chief Executive for Ellembelle Kwasi Bonzo led members of the District Security Committee (DISEC) to the illegal mining site on Thursday September 1, 2022 to destroy two other brand new machines abandoned there.
By Paa Kojo Peters|ConnectFM|Onuaonline.com
