Sanction shoot-to-kill to combat illegal chainsaw operators - Sir John

e annan 12:16 - 08 October 2018

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According to him, the only way the “nation wreckers” could be stopped from their illegal activities to preserve the country’s forest reserves was for the government to sanction the shoot-to-kill system by the task force.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission,

He said such a directive will ward off the activities of illegal chainsaw operators in the country.

Afriyie, who is popularly known as Sir John, made these comments after a latest attack on a military officer and a member of the task force at Sefwi Wiaso.

The attack was perpetrated by Rahama Bawa, popularly called Wazinga.

During an interaction with members of the task force, it was established that Bawa was rearrested after he had escaped from hospital with the injuries he had sustained during a shootout with members of the task force.

Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie

Sir John said he has proposed to the government to sanction a shoot-to-kill system to ward off illegal chainsaw operators from degrading the forests. He said such a decision could also help protect members of the joint military-police forestry task force from attacks, especially in the Sefwi Wiaso and the Juaboso areas in the Western Region.

Bawa has since been sentenced to a two-year jail term by the Sefwi Wiaso Magistrate Court. His accomplices were, however, granted bail.