The elders and people of La in the Greater Accra Region have renewed their fight against the Mahama government with a demonstration, yesterday, in protest against what they see as a systematic pillage of their lands by big people in and around government, including family members and friends of President Mahama.
The Coalition of La Youth Association that led the protest is particularly sad about the fact that their own brothers and sisters around and within the corridors of power have lost their voices relative to this critical issue affecting the Ga-Dangme people.
Independent investigations done by this paper show that the so-called family and friends of the Mahama administration, including Cabinet Ministers, are grabbing Ga lands left, right and centre.
The latest is the Accra Hearts of Oak Park, next to the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum. Government has mysteriously, and compulsorily, acquired the land with the obvious aim to sell it for peanuts to a company set up by a person very much in the inner circle.
The Minister of Lands and Mineral Resources, Nii Osah Mills, is confronted with a legal battle for ignoring a court injunction to go ahead with a conveyance of huge parcels of land belonging to the Aviation Authority.
The beneficiaries are known to be at the very top of the presidency and this has not only angered the staff of Aviation Authority but the Ga Chiefs and people.
Another lucrative parcel of land that the "greedy bunch" have set their teeth into is the large chunk from the southern end of the Airport City which they intend to extend to cover all the piece of land covering the DVLA to Max Mart.
Then there is that large parcel of land which was owned by GIMPA and has now been claimed by a key player in and around the presidency.
Among the most sensitive pieces of land claimed by the Mahama family and friends brigade are the military lands behind the airport and next to Burma Camp.
The biggest casualty to this assault on Ga lands has been the Cantonments Area, which has seen about 70% of the state lands left sold off.
The Coalition of La Youth Association has accused the Mahama government of failing to sustain and consolidate the gains made by previous governments on Ga-Dangme land issues.
According to the group, the president and the NDC government have thrown caution to the wind and decided to roll back the gains made previously in ensuring that the Ga-Dangme people had control over their lands, and with the connivance of the Ghana Armed Forces and the Lands Commission, continue to steal Ga-Dangme lands.
A leading member of the group, Joseph Nii Mensah Ashong, yesterday told the Daily Statesman that they would never rest until they had stopped the “naked stealing of our lands.”
According to the group, even though the Mahama government is fully aware of the fact that the Ghana Armed Forces has arbitrarily stolen and destroyed farmlands, with the full support of Ibrahim Mahama, his brother, nothing was being done about the situation.
Source: The New Statesman
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Brothers, this is not about trading insults here and there, and also defending things that are currently going on, we should all stand up and say no to those greedy people, where is our conscience now, I am in Dubai but I knew of these long ago because I have friends working there, its just a matter of going to such institutions and finding out for yourselves, I voted against the NPP even when my parents were against me, Its not about which party you belong, its all about where and how is Ghana going?. We shouldn't support things of the past and give those bad politicians the justification that what they are doing is right, just because somebody in the past did that. we should learn to grow with our mind, If Africans are capable of ruling themselves, then not in these corrupt way. I read comment from people and I say to myself, are people serious with their future. Let's not defend the wrong. BAD IS BAD
you are the most ***barred word*** fooolllll i have ever heard.what gust do u have to insult Gas like that. ***barred word*** like you.its your entire genretion that are fooooolllll. ***barred word*** kaw
WHAT ARE GA PEOPLE CROWING ABOUT TODAY ? GA PEOPLE ARE THE MOST STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPID TRIBE IN GHANA TODAY !!!!!!!!!! : BECAUSE THEY THE MOST DISUNITED AND INCOHERENT TRIBE : WHO ARE SIMPLY ULESS !!!!!!THEY HAVE BEEN FUILLED BY THE NDC PARTY WITH 'NOKOFIO'; THEIR CHIEFS ARE ULESS AND CANNOT MANAGE THEIR VAST LANDS AND LUCRATIVE LANDS AND EVEN THIS IDIOTIC JON MAHAMA AND HIS FAMILIES AND CRONIES AND GRABBING EVERY PIECE OF LAND AND THEY SIT DOPWN AND DO NOTHING : TODAY GA PEOPLE HAVE NOBODY LEADING THEM :THEY ARE LEADERLESS BUT ARE THE MOST LOUD MOTH TRIBE IN GHANA ; LOOK AT LANTE VANDERPUJE AND OTHERS ARE DOING IN ACCRA ; DO YOU THINK JON MAHAMA AND HIS FAMILIES CAN GO AND GRAB ASHANTI LANDS -GAS UNITE AND DO NOT VOTE FOR NDC AGAIN AND LIKE AYIGBE/EWE PEOPLE JJ RAWLINGS FULLED YOU PEOPLE ; TODAY THE THIFF JJ RAWLINGS EVEN WANTS HER DAUGHTER TO BE AN MP FOR OSU _GA PEOPLE THINK !!!!!!BECAUSE THEY ARE FULLING YOU PEOPLE : THEIR CHIEFS SHOULD UNITE AND FIGHT AGAINST THIS LAND GRABBING OR FIND SOME WAYS TO FOR THESE OWNERS TO PAY LAND DUES ON LEASE BASIS TO THE GA STOOL : DO NOT BE FULLED !!!!!!!!: GA PEOPLE JUST WAKE UP !!!!!!!
I DONT BELIEVE THIS STORY COMING FROM STATEMAN. I DONT BELIEVE PRESIDENT MAHAMA AND FOR THAT MATTER THE NDC WILL DO A THING LIKE THAT SINCE THEY KWEW WHAT THIS LAND MATTERS DID IN KUFOUR TIME. THE NDC RATHER PROTECTED THIS LANDS AND WE HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT LANDS IN ACCRA UNTILL THIS FEW WEEKS TO ELECTIONS. THE NDC MUST COME OUT AND LET ALL THE WORLD KNOW ABOUT THIS LAND MATTER AND IF ITS TRUE I MY SELF WILL ADVICE MYSELF. BUT WHERE WHERE THIS DEMONSTRATERS WHEN JAKE BOUGHT THE STATE PROPERTY? STATEMAN SHOULD NOT TRADE IN THIS AREA FOR VOTES THEY WONT GET ANY.
after selling all the empty lands, the ndc will set their eyes on Ga Mashie itself, Bukom and all its environs and get the lazy and f-o-o-lish Gas out to where they belong............ i personally know of a lot people especially ewes who are behind all this
@ Efo Wisdom, if the NPP new how to protect Ga lands they would have protected Ghana Airways lands which they distributed like 'kaaklo'. At least the NDC saved us the lands which the current Foreign Affairs Offices are sited. So please, fix your internal finances before you talk about lands.
Ga Youth, my advise to you and your elders is that "VOTE FOR NPP, both in Parliament and President" this will PUT STOP within a week when Nana Akuffo Addo assumes office. Even 37 Officers Mess has also been sold out already. WHY. Where will be the Land for future Generation to use make expansion of the City.
Even if this is happening, it has not reached the levels the NPP displayed. This is a group of NPP supporters who want to be seen as putting pressure on the government. Real owners are quiet because such a thing is NOT happening. La lands are being occupied by Ursula Owusu, Martin Adjei Korsay & Co. People such independently check and see those who have taken over over our lands. Why is it that it is only some La youth who are demonstrating? During Kufuor's time it was spontaneous and covered the whole of Accra. Whatever you do, NDC will SWEEP Greater Accra.
President Kuffour and NPP protected the Ga lands for you but when NDC came to power you this same Ga youth said President Kuffour is not a Ga and that he should leave Accra to stay in Kumasi. Now you have seen your ***barred word***n e s s and ***barred word*** i t y.It serves you right.They will sell all including your houses.