100 persons arrested over clashes at Dome Faase released

Over one hundred residents of Dome Faase in the Obom Domeabra constituency who were rounded up by the military over land boundary-related clashes have been released.

Their release followed a request by the elders of the community.

The elders made the request during a meeting with the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey, yesterday, Friday, August 28, 2020.

Hundreds of fear-stricken residents fled the town on Tuesday, August 26, 2020, after clashes on Monday that saw two soldiers being brutalized.

Some residents told Citi News that military personnel deployed to the area went from one house to the other, demanding to see the men in the house.

Some residents also accused the military personnel of ransacking their rooms.

The Omankrado of the Obom Domeabra traditional area, Nii Ado speaking to Citi News on the latest development said: “Yesterday we had another meeting with the Regional Minister, the Mayor Accra and the Ga Mantse and others and the meeting concluded that all the military men should leave the area and also promised us that all the people arrested were going to be released and today all of them have been released.”

“The other concern is that we were told that about 70 of them were kept in one prison cell at the Osu police station and some too were kept Teshie police station, some at the Ministries police station and some at the Cantonment police station so if 70 were kept at one station then you can imagine the other places. So they are more than 300 to 400.”