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Birim South District Security Committee
imposes curfew on Gyadam, Nkwanta
Akyem Oda, March 20, GNA - The Birim South District Security
Committee (DISEC) on Tuesday imposed a dusk to dawn curfew
on Oda Nkwanta and Akyem Gyadam following disturbances after
a football match between the two communities.
Mr Frank Kwame Busumtwi, Birim South District Chief
Executive told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the curfew
would start at 1900 hours to 0500 hours each day until the
insecurity situation in the area returned to normal.
Fighting broke out among people from the two towns last
Sunday after an abrupt end of a football match played at Oda
Nkwanta between a team from Akyem Gyadam and their
counterparts from Oda Nkwanta.
The team from Oda Nkwanta scored a goal and players from
Akyem Gyadam who perceived the referee to be biased pounced
on him and this later degenerated into an open for all fight
among supporters from both towns.
Mr Busumtwi said due to the impasse, people from Akyem
Gyadam could not pass through Oda Nkwanta to Akyem Oda and a
sick person from Akyem Gyadam had to be ferried on River
Birim to the Akyem Oda Government Hospital for treatment.
People from Oda Nkwanta who have their farms near Akyem
Gyadam could not go to their farms.
Mr Busumtwi said the youth from both towns had mobilised
themselves to attack each other and a house at Oda Nkwanta
was attacked and vandalised.
He said a reinforcement of police personnel had been
mobilised from Koforidua, Asamankese and Kade to support
their colleagues at Akyem Oda to protect life and property
in the area.
Since last Sunday, people from both towns had been engaged
in brawls and attempts by the Akyem Oda Police to contain
the situation had not been successful.
According to sources, a young man from Akyem Gyadam whose
name was not readily made available and seriously injured in
the disturbances was on admission at the Akyem Oda
Government hospital while a resident of Oda Nkwanta
identified as Jojo had his car vandalised and personal
effects damaged.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Sampson Agbeko,
Akyem Oda Divisional Crime Officer told the GNA that on
Monday two people from Oda Nkwanta who were diamond winners
went to Akyem Gyadam to win diamond and were allegedly
beaten up by the people.
He said some people from Akyem Gyadam later in the day
mobilised themselves to engage the people of Oda Nkwanta in
another fight but were stopped by the police.
ASP Agbeko said on Tuesday, people from Oda Nkwanta
mobilised themselves to attack the people of Akyem Gyadam
but their Chief Nana Dwamena Akenteng II, together with the
police prevailed on them not to retaliate.
He said after fruitful discussion with the people of Oda
Nkwanta, the police visited Akyem Gyadam, where they found
some people had mounted a roadblock to the town.
ASP Agbeko said people from Akyem Gyadam who had to pass
through Oda Nkwanta to any part of the district could not
travel and people from Oda Nkwanta who had their farms near
Akyem Gyadam could not go to their farms.
No arrests have so far been made.
GNA
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