Kwesi Alhaji Rather Neck- Deep In Land- Guard Activities In Gomoa Fetteh -Assaulted Workers Of Fetteh Salt Industry Spits Fire
The workers rubbished allegations being levelled against them by Kwesi Alhaji that they are land-guard operatives who had attacked him on Wednesday October 12, 2022.
Freeman Koryekpor 
FOURTEEN workers of the Fetteh Salt Industry Limited, the private registered salt mining company in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region who were severely beaten and wounded by the boys of Kwesi Alhaji in Gomoa Fetteh have tongue lashed Kwesi Alhaji for describing them as land-guard operatives.
The visibly worried workers stated that they couldn't fathom why Kwesi Alhaji would rather tagged them as land-guard after he has ordered his boys to beat and wound them on Wednesday October 12, 2022 when they were at work.
According to them, there are clear records and envidences which indicated that Kwesi Alhaji is rather the land-guards kingpin.
They disclosed that Kwesi Alhaji has been working with some various miscreants to use dangerous and deadly weapons to attack many innocent land developers and residents in the area.
The workers were accused that they had attempted to assassinate Kwesi Alhaji, the allegations they described as a completely lies and baseless.
According to the workers, they are legally and satisfied private security officers who were employed by the management of the company to protect the lands and properties of the salt mining industry at Gomoa fetteh.
They recounted how the guns, dangerous and deadly weapons holding land-guards who are boys of Kwesi Alhaji launched severe mayhem at them and turned back to make false claims against them that they are land-guards.
"Kwesi Alhaji and his boys lied, ostensibly to cover their attacks they had meted out to us but our God would speak for us," the distraught workers told journalists.
They lamented that the hired thugs have wounded them in the process of the attack meted out to the workers when they were at work on Wednesday, October 12, 2022.
The assaulted workers numbering about 14 was responding to the current wide media reports that they were land-guards who had attacked Kwesi Alhaji.
Some media houses including United Television, Angel and Adom, Metro televisions and Oman FM reported in their today's news bulleting that some suspected land-guards have been arrested by Kwesi Alhaji Gomoa and his boys and later handed them over to the Ghana Police Service Central Gast Regional Police Command.
But In a quick response, the assaulted workers of the company in a press conference on Thursday October 13, 2022, emphatically stated that they are not land-guards, saying that they workers of the company.
Showing their letters of appointments to justify that indeed they are workers of Fetteh Salt Industry Limited, they pointed out that the land-guards tagged being labelled on them was a calculated attempt by Kwesi Alhaji to tarnish the hard earn image of the workers of the company including the private security officers.
"We wanted to make it clear that it was rather the boys of Kwesi Alhaji who attacked us without any tangible reason. And we are ready to meet them in any place to debate the allegations leveled against us," the assaulted workers stated.
The victims have however announced to the general public to debunk the above mentioned allegations being levelled against them.
Addressing the journalists, the Director of Fetteh Salt Industry, Mr Kofi Ackom called on the government, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. Akuffo Dampare and the National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dappah to, as a matter of urgency intervene to rescue them from criminal activities being allegedly orchestrated by Kwesi Alhaji.
He accused Kwasi Alhaji of allegedly fueling conflicts in Gomoa Fetteh and adjoining communities and explained that Gomoa Fetteh is a peri-urban town and subject to the Royal Ahunako Stool of the Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Area.
The creation of intra family insecurity, conflicts, and divisions within and among the Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Area, particularly Gomoa Fetteh which has become a den for the deadly chieftaincy conflicts and landguardism in the area.
He pointed out that the brewing conflicts which have stalled the development of the area is championed by Kwasi Alhaji.
"We are calling on the government to immediately stop Kwesi Alhaji and his followers for using dangerous and deadly weapons to visit severe attacks on them. This is because we don't know him as the citizen of Gomoa Fetteh. He is a stranger who is from Togo," he stressed.
However, this reporter gathered that the salt mining industry has reported encroachment of its land and thus hired Security personnel to patrol the land and report encroachment to the Police and Military (Operation Calm Life)
According to information available to this news outlet, the security men of the company were made to go through police clearance before their engagement to avoid mistaken identity by the community who are under serious security threat by thugs and land guards.
This online news portal gathered that on their patrol on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, they were intercepted by a group led by Kwasi Alhaji and subjected to beatings (assault and battery).
The sources told journalists that these thugs popularly known as land guards in the area assaulted them mercilessly claiming the security personnel was rather land guards.
The news outlet discovered that these thugs used the Police to carry out unwarranted arrests after the assault.
According to the information, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and other top executives followed up with the Police only to find out the activities were not sanctioned by the Commander in charge but rather by an Officer with questionable character who is currently on leave.
The journalist was told that the police Commander apologized for the shortcomings and promised to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The company has however lodged an official complaint against the culprits and has demanded their immediate arrest for investigations to be carried out.
“We are not powerless against injustice, we are law-abiding citizens and wish to exhaust all legal options available to us in ensuring that justice is served. We believe in the rule of law. They trespassed on our land to cause harm as if laws don’t exist. Let’s wait and see how they escape this, added the spokesperson for the company, Mr. Nana Essel.
It is on record that Gomoa Fetteh has been in news recently over chieftaincy and landguardism issues for over two decades.
