The Member of Parliament for the Bole-Bamboi constituency in the Savannah Region, Hon. Yusif Sulemana, has appealed to various stakeholders and journalists to educate the public on security.
He said people needed to know more about personal security, to be able to avoid miscreants and criminals, in the Bole township and its environs.
Hon. Sulemana was speaking to journalists and a section of Assembly Members in Bole town in the wake of the mysterious killings and halfway burials of unidentified persons in the Bole town and Sawla to whip up their interest to educate the public on security matters .
He called on residents to be “observant, alert and vigilant about their personal security, to be able to detect the presence of strange and suspicious characters and report them to the police or Assembly Members before any attack”.
He also urged community members to volunteer information to the police about suspicious people to the police, stressing “all people must be vigilant and alert to detect the presence of suspicious characters”.
The MP urged parents to take proper care of their of their children not to expose them to such criminal activities.
According to the MP, Landlords should be vigilant about whom they rent out their rooms or apartments to.
“Try as much as possible to know where the person is coming from and what he or she does before you give out your rooms to such persons”, he encouraged landlords.
It is not advisable to allow more than the occupancy capacity of one room to rent in your house without Knowing their personal details, the MP added.
The MP also called for the formation of community watchdogs with defined duties to beef up security in the Bole township and its surrounding communities.
Background.
At Mempeasem and Chorinbang respectively, there were reports on the discoveries of two corpses buried with parts of their bodies exposed in the same month of February, 2022.
A similar one also occurred at Sawla on Saturday 19th February where similar unidentified man was discovered at the R/ C cluster of schools halfway buried.
Residents in the two areas, thus, Bole and Sawla who have been gripped with fear have called on stakeholders to act quickly to avert such occurrences.
Source: yagbonradioonline
