Some marauding land-guards numbering thirteen (13) posed as the National Security operatives were arrested on the land located at Bortey-man Omanjor in Accra belonging to Woodfields Development Company Limited.
On Tuesday July 18, 2025, the joint team of the police officers from the anti-Landguard Unit of Ghana Police Service and military officers have stormed the Woodfields acquired-land at Bortey-man Omanjor to effect arrest of these notorious landguards, including Simon Richard Ansah, and the operation formed part of the police efforts to crackdown on the activities of land-guards.
The hired landguards were sent to the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) headquarters of the Ghana Police Service for their statements to be taken.
What is very shocking is that when Simon Richard Ansah was arrested together with the miscreants on the land, there is direct order from the Flagstaff House to release him which situation has sparked suspicious that there is some men behind the illegalities of these miscreants.
The operation team seized eight motorbikes including their national security internal communications gadgets from the landguards on the land.
The operation, which followed intelligence gathered from persistent complaints by the rightful owner of the land resulted in the apprehension of these notorious landguards, accused of helping the so-called estate developer, Simon Richard Ansah to engage in the criminal encroachment on the land, intimidating and harassing clients, destroying properties, erecting of unauthorised wallls around the land and unlawfully claiming the land.
The Woodfields has lawfully acquired the said land in question from the Nungua Stool since in 2003 and subsequently registered the land with the Lands Commission of Ghana.
During the fact finding mission to the land there is every documentary evidence that proves rightful ownership of the said land as belonging to the Woodfields Development Company Limited.
The journalist saw how these hired miscreants led by Mr Vicent Webia were protecting human security for the masons and their workers to busily erecting wall around the said land in question.
Mr Vicent Webia claimed that he is working as second-in-command with the National security taskforce at the Flagstaff/Jubilee House under the leadership of the Director of Operations at National Security, Commissioner of Police (COP) (rtd.),Nathan Kofi Boakye.
It was discovered that a known landlord living in Chrematinville at Bortey-man Omanjor who is an Ewe by tribe serves as a grapevine communicator who has been leaking various vital information to landguards and their pay master, Simon Richard Ansah.
The Ewe man (name withheld) now was accused of aiding Simon Richard Ansah to hire services of the landguards to engage in trespassing or encroachment on the Woodfields legally-acquired-land at Bortey-man Omanjor.
Thugs numbering about thirty (30) led by Vicent Webia were hired by Simon Richard Ansah to terrorise, attack, issue death threats and harass some clients or land developers who had legally purchased the acres of land from the company at Bortey-man Omanjor.
The suspects were found to be impersonating as national security operatives after police and military officers raid the area and that the deep throat sources closed to the police told the news outlet that these thugs would be put before the court for impersonation and assault.
These miscreants, some of them wielding offensive weapons claimed to have been officially assigned from the national security taskforce at the Flagstaff/Jubilee House to protect the said questionable land for Simon Richard Ansah, but the various documentary evidence or record in possession of this journalist show that the said land belongs to Woodfields.
Surprisingly, although these thugs claimed to have come from national security taskforce at the Flagstaff, our investigations from the National Security at the Castle Annex popularly called Blue Gate have revealed that they had not deployed anybody to protect land at Bortey-man Omanjor.
The Blue Gate also denied the knowledge of working with Simon Richard Ansah to use the landguards to trespass on the land belonging to Woodfields at Bortey-man Omanjor.
Our investigations have revealed that Simon Richard Ansah has been engaging in the illegal sales of these lands to unsuspecting land buyers or developers.
However, the these criminal activities of Simon Richard Ansah led by these individuals had been brought to the attention of Woodfield for which the company has cautioned prospective land and property buyers against dealing with these members with questionable identities.
The owner of the land—Woodfields Development Company Limited has strongly warned these land buyers to, immediately stay away from the land or else risk losing their landed properties on the land.
According to the company, there is the need for everyone who intends to buy land at Bortey-man Omanjor in the Greater Accra Region or housing property to do all the necessary checks and establish the authenticity of their documents before making payments.
In view of that, the company has advised the general public to always contact them in having a fruitful business deals with land at Borteyman Omanjor that will not inconvenience them in the future.
To this end, the leadership of company to call on President John Dramani Mahama to, immediately impress upon the Minister for Interior, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka to investigate the alarming situation.
The Sector Minister must be tasked to investigate on how these notorious landguards have been impersonating as national national operatives at the Flagstaff House to protect the land which hasn’t owned by their pay master, Simon Richard Ansah.
“We have realised that the miscreants are using Presidency’s name to perpetrate the heinous crime on the land so we are pleading with the Minister of Interior, National Security Cordinator GP National Security Director of Operations at the Presidency to ensure that the encroachers to be brought to book.
According to the The Director of Operations at The Director of Operations at Woodfields Development Company Limited.,they have welcomed the decision of the Minister for Sports and Recreation, Honourable Kofi Adams to announce plans to fence the remaining portion of the Borteyman Sports Complex to prevent encroachment on the government-owned land.
He pointed out that, they believe that, since the government can fence the remaining portion of the Borteyman Sports Complex to prevent encroachment on the government-owned land, same support should be given to the company to also safeguard its legally acquired land at Bortey-man.
