The citing of a police station at a vantage location at Klagon, consequently enabling the police to respond to distress calls by the citizens has improved security in the area, residents have observed.
The police station is adjacent the Klagon Government school and it was single-handedly put up by Nii Bortey Klan I, the chief of Klagon.
Since Nii Klan I officially handed over the facility to the Ghana Police Service about a year ago, residents said the police often patrol the community especially during odd hours to ward off criminals.
“Security at Klagon is not hundred percent but, in my view, it has improved since the police station became operational. I am a new resident here but my co-tenants told me the police station was built by the Chief of the area, Nii Klan I,” Michael Eshun, a trader said.
Several businesses, as well as churches, are fast springing up at the southern part of Klagon where among the beautiful enormous buildings is the outstanding huge Klagon Divisional Palace with an ongoing construction of an arbitration hall and offices.
There, the residents, though said the police often patrol the area, complained of their bad roads which are barely motorable when it rains.
The Tema wetlands is located in that part of Klagon, where some drug users and hooligans converge to plot evil or attack anybody who goes closer to the ramsar in the night or when the area is still.
“But, the unannounced patrol of the area by the Klagon police is gradually making the police unsafe for these criminals,” Mr George Nsiah, a resident testified.
“Besides, Nii Bortey Klan I lives here with us so we are privilege to be enjoying regular police patrol especially at night. Since I came to live here in 2014, I have hardly heard of thieves breaking into people’s homes. Security in the area has improved,” Mrs Charlotte Oklemeh, another resident, testified.
Activities of land guards at Klagon are far from developers who genuinely dealt with the Klagon Divisional Council, a sub-division of the Nungua Traditional Area, to legitimately acquire their plots of land.
Known in private life as Samuel Nii Bortey Kofi, Nii Bortey Klan I, Chief of Klagon, told newsmen that he has a vision of making the Divisional area an envy in the Nungua Traditional Area and possibly in the Greater Accra Region, where investors would yearn to locate their businesses.
“When such business persons come to see a recognised palace with offices for the staff of the Divisional Council and with police presence high, certainly, they will love to cite their businesses here and that will mean, job creation for my people. That will eventually reduce crime in Klagon,” Nii Klan I explained.
On some bad road network in his area, he said the Divisional Council is lobbying the West Tema Municipal Assembly to rehabilitate if not all, most of those stretches to facilitate the patrol of the police and other motorists.
Promising to embark on other infrastructural projects in Klagon, Nii Klan I was quick to advise people who want to acquire land in Klagon to be wary of dubious persons who are ready to shortchange them.
Reminding the public that Klagon has no regent, Nii Klan I produced documents to prove his position and legitimacy as the enstooled chief of the Klagon.
Contained in the Chieftaincy Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 1 of November 2015, and published by Authority, National House of Chiefs, Samuel Nii Bortey Kofi, enstooled as Nii Bortey Klan I, was approved on April 12, 2012, as the sub-Divisional Chief under the Nungua Traditional Council.
The frontispiece of the Chieftaincy Bulletin
His serial number at the National House of Chiefs is 500 as published in the Bulletin with a green frontispiece.
“Anybody who doubts my legitimacy can contact the National House of Chiefs, in case they don’t even trust the Regional House of Chiefs. Let investors beware that Klagon has no regent but a legitimate chief who can be met at a recognised palace but not in a hideout somewhere,” Nii Bortey Klan I informed the public.
A picture of a true copy of Nii Klan I’s enstoolment
By: Umar Sheriff Musah
