Fifteen persons have been arrested by the Eastern Regional Police Command in a swoop at Asenema in connection with violence that led to the vandalizing of houses.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Ransford Ninson, Eastern Regional Commander said the 15 people were found culpable after a screening of 73 people including 10 juveniles arrested but
the juveniles were released immediately.
He said the police was investigating the incidence until yesterday when they had information that some of the young men had resurfaced in the community and that led to their arrest.
The commander said the 15 persons would be arraigned before court.
It would be recalled that two weeks ago violence erupted at Asenema, a farming community near Adukrom, between the residents and a fetish priest leading to the vandalizing and burning of the fetish priest's house and shrine.
The source of the violence was that three years ago, a three year old boy was killed and parts of his body were missing and the residents
suspected the fetish priest to be behind the murder for ritual purposes.
The violence erupted when the residents saw that workers at the fetish priest's shrine were trying to lure a six-year-old boy, who is a cousin of the deceased, to the shrine with bread and that resulted in a quarrel between the two factions.
Meanwhile Mr Dan Kwaku Botwe, Member of Parliament for Okere, earlier on visited all the cells where the suspects were kept.
He expressed the hope that the police would intensify its investigation into the matter to ensure a lasting solution to the impasse.