One arrested in connection with Agona Kwanyarko clash
The Agona Kwanyarko Police has arrested one suspect in connection with a shooting incident that occurred at Agona Kwanyarko over a GH¢500 debt.
The suspect, arrested on Thursday morning, was handed over to the Agona Swedru Divisional Police Command in the Central Region.
According to the Ahoroso Odumase Electoral Area assemblyman, Benjamin Sackey, cutlasses were retrieved from the suspect at the time of the arrest.
He is currently in custody, assisting with investigations.
According to an eyewitness, Yaw Baah, a native of Agona Fawomaye, bought a tree from Kofi Annan for GH¢900, not knowing that another person in Kofi Annan’s family had also sold the same tree to another individual.
After some months, Yaw Baah approached Kofi Annan for his money, and Kofi Annan paid GH¢400 out of the GH¢900, leaving a balance of GH¢500.
Kofi Annan, who failed to pay the rest of the money, said he and his friends were at a drinking spot when Yaw Baah’s friend approached him and demanded the money for his friend.
Kofi Annan declined, which led to the fight.
Kofi Annan said that after the fight, they called Yaw Baah, and he also called for reinforcements with weapons from Fawomaye and Kwanyarko Zongo.
He said the angry youth started firing live bullets indiscriminately, attacking innocent people with broken bottles, cutlasses and sticks.
The group also destroyed television sets and some properties of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the town.
They brutalized innocent people and destroyed properties because Kofi Annan failed to pay the 500 cedis debt owed to one of them.