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Professor Kofi Agyekum, popularly called Opanyin Agyekum, has appealed to the Ghana Police Service to deploy officers to Twifo Nuamakrom in the Central Region and arrest some welders and scrap dealers sawing off railway sleepers and tracks in the community.

The railway lines pass through Twifo Nuamakrom from Huni Valley through Assin Fosu to Adjen Kotoku in the Greater Accra Region.

The scrap dealers, according to the Chief of Nuamakrom in the Ati-Morkwaa Traditional Area, Nana Akrofi Koram, use gas welding machines and hacksaw in sawing off the railway sleepers and tracks.

"They cut, remove and melt them to sell," Nana Akrofi Koram disclosed in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's 'kokrokoo' programme Tuesday Morning.

"The whole of Monday they were sawing off them. We call the Police and immediately they leave, they come back," he added.

The suspects then load the lines onto a tricycle (Aboboyaa) and take them away.

Reacting to the issue, Opanyin Agyekum bemoaned the inhumane act by the welders and scrap dealers and called the attention of the Police to their activity in the area.

He also advised the Chief to be cautious stating if the people can cut the railway lines with reckless abandon, they can equally cause harm or inflict their wickedness on him.

"The Chief should be very careful and cautious because these unscrupulous people are wicked. The Police should immediately go there," he said.