Think tank, Data and Advocacy Consult, Ghana, has called on the Ghana Police Service to make Nana Amponsah, Chief Executive Officer of the Okobeng Mining Company, a cautionary tale to rich and powerful people who break the law with impunity.

This comes in the wake of the arrest and charge of Mr. Amponsah for allegedly conspiring to murder two of his business rivals in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality.

Nana Amponsah was arrested in January after audio recordings of an alleged conversation between him and a contract killer were leaked to the police.

In the said audio he is alleged to have ordered for the murder of two other small scale miners in the area; Emma and Adjei Ben, who were supposedly encroaching on his mining concession.

Their death was to serve as a deterrent to other small scale miners in the area who might try to encroach on his concession.

According to Data and Advocacy Consult, Ghana, such horrendous behavior should be discouraged especially among the rich and powerful who may feel they are above the law.

The group has thus called for the full rigors of the law to take its course and ensure that justice is served.

“That the laws as stated or recommended by the 1992 constitution do not discriminate against persons or give exclusive privileges to a person or group of persons who are affluent or wield political power of any divide over a person or group of persons to commit criminal offences with impunity,” the group said.

They added that his prosecution and subsequent incarceration, should he be found guilty, would serve as a strong deterrent to others that may seek to tow the same line of action.

“That this will serve as a deterrent to person or group of persons who assume or are of the fervent conviction that they could commit any criminal offence and use money or political power to influence or compromise the carriage of justice, probity and accountability,” they said.

This they say will repose the confidence of the people in the Police Service and other law enforcing state agencies as this will communicate the state institutions’ commitment to ensuring that the safety and constitutional rights of the people are protected.

They finally called on the Inspector General of Police to “take keen interest in this matter to ensure the promotion of justice and the continues fight against crime and humanity for service to mankind is service to God and country.”

Meanwhile, Nana Amponsah will be reappearing in court today, March 17.