Akufo-Addo, IGP, Petitioned over Afienya's Land Grabber, Harry Nartey
Distraught indigenes and residents of Afienya in the Greater Accra region, are appealing to President Akufo-Addo, to bring the alleged ring leader of a notorious land guard gang which is terrorizing them with impunity, to book.
According to the petitioners, they want the president to direct the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to arrest and prosecute Pastor Harry Nartey and his minions who continue to criminally seize and sell lands that do not belong to them.
Allegedly, there are several complaints that have been filed against the so-called pastor who uses land guards to grab and sell people’s lands, however, the Afienya district police command has neglected to prosecute because the pastor plies them with his “pocket”.
The appeal was provoked recently as a result of Pastor Harry Nartey’s latest victim, one Rita Langa, being frustrated by the Police after she lodged a land fraud complaint against him.
Rita, who works with the Ghana Education Service (GES), had her land at Afienya encroached upon by one Sulley Seba who apparently had the same land sold to him by Pastor Harry Nartey.
Rita who had bought the land from one Nii Djan Abbey, a recognized family head at Prampram, would report the land fraud to the Afienya district Police providing the genuine documentation issued her for the land by Nii Abbey. However, the police have since not arrested the man and his conspirators.
Rather, the Prampram police keep telling the woman to go and come later anytime she approaches the police over the issue.
The Police’ inaction is said to be following the same route as many other land fraud cases reported against Pastor Harry Nartey at the ASfienya police station.
This is what has annoyed other residents who similarly have their cases against Pastor Nartey frozen at the Afienya Police station, into calling on the President to step in and let sanity prevail.
“We want His Excellency the President to direct the IGP, to order that all cases against Pastor Harry Nartey and his gang be prosecuted in court,” said Daniel Nortei, one of the agitators.
According to him, “we are just tired of the Afienya police’ cold feet syndrome over cases that are reported against him.”
Interestingly, it is said that Pastor Nartey is not an indigene of Afienya. Even the land that his late mother, alias Moko le dzen, farmed on for years, was lent to her.
Years ago, his late mother, popularly called Moko le dzen, is said to have sojourned to Afienya and then pleaded with the chiefs there for a piece of land to farm on. That land was granted her and over time, the settler integrated into the society.
However, it is alleged that when Pastor Harry Nartey wants to defraud his victims, he creates the impression that the land he is selling is a family property.
Based on this fraudulent premise, he sometimes proposes that victims who have bought lands from him only to find out that it belongs to others, accept other lands elsewhere. However, those replacement lands too turn out to belong to others.
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