Koforidua, June 12, GNA - Residents near the taxi rank at Hackman area, at Effiduase, have appealed to the Member of Parliament (MP) to stop their constant harassment by a monkey, bred by one of their neighbours. Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, MP for New Juaben North, is their representative.

The residents, who made the appeal through the Ghana News Agency, (GNA) complained that, the monkey is not properly controlled by its owner, whom they only identified as Paa Willie, so it often breaks loose from its chain to attack them.

The residents claimed that some of them were scratched by the monkey when it attacked them while some women and children who fled the animal fell down and got hurt.

"The monkey attacks, collects and eats food items being sold along the road and even enter people's shops to pick some of their items to eat," they complained.

One of the residents, Ms Lydia Sertodzi, said on one occasion when the monkey went to her house, after chasing her children away, it dipped its hands into some soup she had prepared for her family and they had to throw the soup away.

She said last Wednesday the monkey again went to her house, ate her maize from a bowl and attacked her. Ms Sertodzi said she witnessed the monkey chasing a woman who was carrying some wares and when she fell she sustained bruises all over her legs. She said the owner of the monkey did not take the complaints of the residents seriously. 12 June 10