Gbetsile Obeyeyie is a developing community in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. Located off the Tema Akosombo Highway, it is a few minutes drive from the Central Business area of Tema.
Due to the low cost of land and the proximity of communities located at the peripheries of Tema to the industrial hub of Tema, most workers who seek to own their own properties have no choice than to lease lands in communities such as Gbetsile and its environs.
This, however, has come at a high cost to many of these innocent developers as they are met with series of challenges including land guard attacks, wrong sales and double sales.
This rising tension in Gbetsile over the activities of land guards has left residents and developers alarmed about the situation.
Samuel Acheampong, a resident who has had many challenges with land guards shared his woe with Citi News’ Tema Correspondent, Elvis Washington.
“This is not the first time. At first, I bought a piece of land. There was no chief at that time in Gbetsile. And these guys, with police and soldiers, came to attack me. I paid GHS25 million before they gave me a receipt. Now, they are telling me the receipt has expired. I don’t know whether lands have expiry dates. So I need to make different papers. What is going on? I’m scared. Because today they beat my carpenters and wounded them,” he lamented.
“Around 11 am, I had a call that some land guards have invaded the lands that have been given to customers. Materials on the lands have been destroyed. We don’t know whether these land guards have the backing of the law or whatever. All we know is that land guards are prohibited in Ghana at large,” another resident, Ben Nortey narrated.