{"id":360340,"date":"2017-10-09T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T11:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360340"},"modified":"2017-10-09T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T11:26:19","slug":"wassa-akropong-youth-set-up-checkpoints-to-hunt-down-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/wassa-akropong-youth-set-up-checkpoints-to-hunt-down-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Wassa Akropong: Youth set up checkpoints to hunt down Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some angry youth of Wassa Akropong in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region, have set up checkpoints on the Wassa Akropong High street in search of Chinese nationals following the killing of a Ghanaian last Friday.<\/p>\n
There had been chaotic scenes since last Friday after a 30-year-old Ghanaian, Nana Boah, a lotto operator, was shot by a Chinese national\u00a0after a dispute over services rendered by another resident, who is a plumber.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”UE1xFhM3MUqlnIU5ijD8dhekJxI34u6j”]The youth are demanding prosecution of the Chinese national who carried out the dastardly act,\u00a0as the police have made four arrests so far.<\/p>\n
But the arrests have done little to appease the irate youth who are bent on ensuring that Wassa Akropong is rid of all Chinese, even after the intervention of the Paramount Chief of the Wassa Amenfi Traditional Area, Tetrete Okuamoah Sekyim II on Saturday.<\/p>\n
However, by Sunday, the youth had set up checkpoints with revenge on their minds, as they lamented the seeming neo-colonization\u00a0by Chinese leading to the area also adopting the name ‘Wassa Shanghai’.<\/p>\n
There is already a sense of resentment for Chinese because of their involvement in illegal mining, especially in the Western Region.<\/p>\n