Accra, July 15, GNA - The police in Accra have mounted a search for a number of landguards alleged to have brutalised some land developers and their construction workers at Agyiringanor, near East Legon in Accra.

A source at the Police Headquarters in Accra told the Ghana News Agency on Saturday that the police had received a series of complaints about the activities of the landguards, who were said to be usually armed and dressed in military fatigue.

The activities of the group is a source of worry to many developer in the area as they often landed on construction workers on site, brutalise them and seize their tools, money mobile phones and other valuables they could lay hands on. They then drive the workers away with warnings never to appear there again, police said.

The source said the reports mentioned one Mohammed also called 'Sobibor" and Korley as the kin-pins of the group, who had recruited others only identified as Kpani, Boye, Akuffo, Okoe, Zion and Francis Botchway, to carry out their activities.

According to the reports the leaders of the group often patrolled the building sites around the TRASACO Estates in a black cross-country vehicle with registration number GX 808 X. The source also indicated that information available to the police said most of the landguards were based at a beach spot called Salenco at Atukpai, James Town in Accra.