ad_1]
Chiefs of the Akyem Abuakwa State says they won’t cede an inch of their lands or tolerate any customary violations inside their territory henceforth, indicating that any such infringement could have penalties.
In a press convention addressed by the Akyem Abuakwa State Secretary, D. M. Ofori Atta for and on behalf of Nananoom in response to issues bothering the declare of possession of Adoagyiri by Akyem Kotoku, Nananoom indicated that, Adoagyiri is just not contiguous with any of the lands of the Kotoku State.
They stated, greater than 5 cities of Akyem Abuakwa seperate Adoagyiri from Akyem Kotoku.
There was pressure within the Adoagyiri township following a restraining order secured by the Ghana Police Service over the celebration of this yr’s Odwira Pageant by the embattled Chief of Adoagyiri Nana Ofutu Dompreh on one aspect and a deliberate set up of a brand new Chief of Adoagyiri by the Akyem Abuakwa State.
The stress flows from claims by some three individuals purporting to signify Akyem Kotoku that Adoagyiri is a part of the Akyem Kotoku Conventional Space and demanding that, the Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin desist from interfering within the chieftaincy issues of Adoagyiri.
In setting the information on the press convention, Nananoom of Akyem Abuakwa State talked about that Adoagyiri since historic instances has been a part of Akyem Abuakwa and falls immediately beneath the Apapam stool which is an integral a part of the Amantuomiensa group of Akyem Abuakwa.
They stated, information point out that, all successive Adoagyiri Chiefs have been a part of the Akyem Abuakwa State Council and that, the Kotoku residents simply as different ethnic communities are settlers, granted usufructuary proper and haven’t any allodia proper to any land at Adoagyiri.
Bellow is the total Press Assertion:
PRESS CONFERENCE HELD BY NANANOM OF THE AKYEM ABUAKWA STATE ON THE CHIEFTAINCY IMPASSE AT NSAWAM-ADOAGYIRI AND RELATED QUESTION OF LAND OWNERSHIP OFORI PANIN FIE, KYEBI, 13TH MARCH 2023.
Girls and gents of the press, settle for our appreciation of being right here this morning regardless of the slightly brief discover.
This press assembly as indicated by the invitation is to make clear problems with Nsawam-Adoagyiri land and chieftaincy dispute and to teach the general public on the historical past of Akyem Abuakwa.
The Ofori Panin Fie has discovered it mandatory and crucial to reply to a matter bothering the declare of possession of Adoagyiri by Akyem Kotoku.
This relates partly to the injunction positioned by the Ghana Police Service on a deliberate celebration of the Odwira competition by sure individuals claiming to be the standard authority of the city.
The matter provoked our understanding of reviews of rising pressure within the city because of the public questioning of the customary propriety and legality of the deliberate celebration sanctioned by sure individuals purporting to be performing on behalf of the Kotoku Conventional Council.
It follows claims that Adoagyiri is a part of the Akyem Kotoku Conventional Space and associated to this, a sure George Twum, who claims to be the Chief of Adoagyiri and the Ankobeahene of Kotoku masquerading with the title ‘Okoanadwo Afutu Dompreh II’.
Following this improvement three individuals, Obrempong Gyamfi Saforo, Obrempong Sintim Poku, and Nana Kwesi Kyeretwie, purporting to signify the Kotoku State, in a letter dated the twenty third February 2023 demanding that His Majesty Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin desist from the interference within the Chieftaincy issues in Adoagyiri.
Girls and Gents of the press, allow me to reiterate the next established info:
1. Adoagyiri is the border city and entry into the Akyem Abuakwa Kingdom from Accra. This in is indicated by the Nsawam bridge throughout the Densu River as entrance of the Akyem Abuakwa kingdom.
2. Adoagyiri has since historic instances been a part of Akyem Abuakwa and falls immediately beneath the Apapam Stool which is an integral a part of the Amantuomiensa Group of the Akyem Abuakwa State.
3. Information point out that each one successive Adoagyiri Chiefs have been a part of the Akyem Abuakwa State Council; inclusive within the information are proof of land transactions;
4. In regards to the above, Barima Adu Kokor II, who handed on in 2007, served the Ofori Panin Stool as probably the most devoted and one of many longest reigning Chiefs of Akyem Abuakwa, was put in in 1953 as Chief of Adoagyiri;
5. The Kotoku residents simply as different ethnic communities are settlers, granted usufructuary proper and haven’t any allodia proper to any land;
6. Additional to the above it ought to be clearly understood that, land by Akan Custom is the basic situation for the train of customary proper, the 2 being intricately linked and inseparable;
7. The Okyenhene being the allodia proprietor of the land in Adoagyiri workout routines unique customary authority;
8. There aren’t any information that establishes that Adoagyiri is and has ever been a part of Akyem Kotoku Conventional Space;
9. Adoagyiri is just not contiguous with any of the lands of the Kotoku State—greater than 5 cities of Akyem Abuakwa separate Adoagyiri from Akyem Kotoku lands.
Girls and Gents of the press, we’re pressured beneath the circumstances to present a quick historic account of Akyem historical past.
To grasp the competition of the matter, we kindly want you to notice that the Adoagyiri deadlock is nothing new.
It’s not the primary time that the Kotoku State has tried to put doubtful declare to Akyem Abuakwa lands.
Over 5 centuries in the past, the ancestors of Akyem Abuakwa migrated from Adansi Akrokere Kokobeante to ascertain the Akyem Abuakwa State, which stretches from the Densu River within the precincts of Nsawam within the South, to the Pomposu River within the East, to the environs of Kwahu border abutting the Jejeti city to the north.
The Kotoku State was initially rehabilitated at Gyadam close to Osino in 1824. It was later relocated in Western Akyem in 1863 after the Gyadam conflict.
Girls and Gents of the press, it’s crucial to notice that the land on which the capital of Kotoku State, Nsuaem, subsequently named Akyem Oda was granted rent-free to them by Akyem Abuakwa.
As latest as 1902 King Attafua of Kotoku petitioned Sir Matthew Nathan, the Colonial Governor to include the Abuakwa cities of Akyease, Gyadam, Kyea, Otwereso and Brimso into the Kotoku state on grounds that majority of the inhabitants had been ethnic Kotoku.
The Colonial Administration dismissed the petitioned with contemptuous disregard.
Girls and Gents of the Press, the query of jurisdiction is just not primarily based on ethnicity or tribal identification. Jurisdiction is geographical and territorial.
It’s on these identical grounds that Adoagyiri can’t be claimed by any settler neighborhood whether or not Ga, Ewe, Krobo or Kotoku.
However there are extra explanation why the Kotoku declare to Adoagyiri possession is provocative, unfounded and vexatious.
The celebrated English writer Poly Hill in his ebook Migrant Cocoa Famers of Southern Ghana: a Research in Rural Capitalism made copious reference to a judgment of the Gold Coast Supreme Court docket case between Akyem Apedwa and Akyem Apapam. In web page 151 of the ebook the discovered writer said as follows: – the principal object of the regulation swimsuit in Accra in December 1894, was to settle whether or not Apedwa or Apapam had the best to personal the land from which a ferry was operated over the River Densu at Nsawam.
The Plaintiff, the chief of Apedwa, alleged that his predecessor had given permission to 1, Addo Agyiri, to decide on the land, which lay throughout the space managed by his stool and that he had began and labored the ferry for him, later giving him canoes in funds for the permission given to him to dwell on the land.
The defendant, the chief of Apapam, alleged that the land lay throughout the space managed by him and that it was his predecessor who had granted Addo Agyiri permission to dwell on the land. The defendant, the chief of Apapam, alleged that the land lay throughout the space managed by him and that it was his predecessor who had granted Addo Agyiri permission to dwell on the land. Addo Agyiri himself, whose occupation solely went again some eight years, denied that permission had been given by the chief of Apapam, however admitted that when he first went on the land his proper to be there had been challenged by the Apapam folks.
Judgement was entered in favour of the chief of Apapam.
Girls and Gents of the press, a latest brochure produced by the defunct chief of Adoagyiri as a part of his aborted Odwira celebration made a transparent admission that “the land right here belong to the Apapam of Abuakwa state”.
Akyem Kotoku has lengthy standing chieftaincy dispute and thus the three signatories don’t signify the place of the Council. It’s an orchestration to impose a Chief in Adoagyiri to facilitate unlawful land acquisition.
This example displays the rising crises of land theft because the business demand of lands in southern stretch of the Jap Area has sky-rocketed as a consequence of open ended western growth of Accra.
The Akyem Abuakwa Conventional Council has been confronted with related provocative conditions previously few years, and desires to point that it will likely be unable to tolerate such developments inside these areas.
Okyeman is just not ready to secede an inch of its lands or tolerate customary violations and want to point out that any such infringements could have penalties.
There isn’t a Chief of Adoagyiri at present second.
George Twum Is an imposter. Most of the people and notably land builders coping with him achieve this at their very own threat
The actions of few individuals with parochial financial curiosity to current George Twum as chief of Adoagyiri threatens the general public peace and communal solidarity in these areas, and acceptable regulation enforcement measures shall be taken if the state of affairs persists.
Akyem Abuakwa has in any respect materials instances maintained a wholesome and cordial relations with the Akyem Kotokus and all different settler communities on its lands.
The Osagyefuo in in line with the above is assuring the folks of Adoagyiri that he has initiated measures for the choice and set up of reputable Chief of Adoagyiri as quickly as practicable.
Girls and Gents of the press thanks in your consideration. Might I now invite your questions.
Signed
D.M. Ofori-Atta
STATE SECRETARY
0541-931-435
Supply: Peacefmonline.com
| Disclaimer: Opinions expressed listed below are these of the writers and don’t mirror these of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no duty authorized or in any other case for his or her accuracy of content material. Please report any inappropriate content material to us, and we are going to consider it as a matter of precedence. |
Featured Video
