Cape Coast, Dec. 13, GNA - Mr Guy Sillo, the Municipal Coordinating Director of the Cape Coast Municipal Assembly (CCMA), on Tuesday spoke about the importance of the police in the maintenance of peace and appealed to the public to refrain from over-criticizing them. He stressed the need for the people to commend them whenever it is due and that as a human institution the service was bound to make mistakes.

Mr Sillo said this at Cape Coast when he met newsmen after a meeting of the Municipal Security Committee (MSC) of the CCMA to brief them on some of the measures being taken by the MSC to ensure that the Christmas was celebrated peacefully.

He said the police and other security agencies would intensify their patrols in all the suburbs to ensure that the municipality was peaceful.

Mr Silo appealed to the public to co-operate with the security agencies by reporting any suspicious character in their vicinity to the police.

In another development Mr Jonathan Nyaaba of the Central Regional Office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Tuesday said the Fosu Lagoon in Cape Coast was drying up because of the presence of water hyacinth and the dumping of waste into it.

He said it was in this regard that permission was granted to Nana Kweku Atta, the Krontihene of Oguaa Traditional Area by the Minerals Commission in collaboration with the EPA, to win some sand along the beach adjacent to the lagoon to enable seawater to flow into the lagoon. He said the seawater could kill the weeds and destroy all particles in the lagoon.

Mr Nyaaba said it was unfortunate that the exercise was being misunderstood by the fisher folks and they have refused to allow the chief to undertake the "task of giving a new lease of life to the lagoon."

The fishermen told newsmen that they would resist all attempts to undertake the task.

They said winning of sand and the eventual meeting of the sea and the lagoon could not in anyway help the lagoon. "It is even not true that the lagoon is dying. Winning sand can also deprive us of a place to anchor our their boats."