The Chief of Sreso Timpon in the Ashanti Region, who recently chased an assemblyman around on a farm with a sharp cutlass, is in police grips according to The Daily Guide..

This follows a wireless message dispatched by the Kumasi Central Police for the chief, Nana Frimpong Manso III, to report himself personally to assist the police in their investigations, or face arrest.

Subsequently, the Chief handed himself over to the police and was immediately arrested at Sreso Timpon on Thursday, September 13, 2001.

Nana Frimpong is alleged to have chased Mr Joseph Boakye-Ansah, the Assemblyman for Sreso Timpon with a sharp cutlass around the Timpon Forest.

Acting as a vigilante group the assemblyman is said to have reported the chief to the Sreso police for allegedly cutting timber from a timber concession belonging to K.K. Timbers, a Kumasi-based timber firm.

While Boakye-Ansah and his group were on their guard duty in July this year, they allegedly spotted Nana Frimpong Manso and three others felling trees from the K.K. Timbers concession.

The vigilante group therefore rushed to the Sreso police to report the matter.

The police ordered that the felled beams be brought to the Antwina Forest Department, but Nana Frimpong Manso had a hint of the order and immediately conveyed the beams to an unknown destination.

According to the source, when the Assemblyman attempted to obstruct the Chief's order, Nana Frimpong Manso allegedly pulled a cutlass and chased the Assemblyman through the forest.

But for the timely intervention of some good-spirited people who went to his rescue, the Assemblyman would have been butchered to death.

Nana Frimpong Manso has meanwhile been granted police enquiry bail to present himself on October 2, 2001 in addition with witnesses to give their statements.

The Assemblyman had on his part produced two of his witnesses to the police.