The Kpone Traditional Council (KTC) says the naked disregard for traditional boundary demarcations by the Prampram Traditional Area will force it (KTC) to break the laws of the state.
To address the imminent tension which has been festering for over two years now, the KTC has requested the Ghana Police Service, Lands Commission and all relevant peace mediators who matter to call the Prampram Traditional Council to obey a 1927 Supreme Court’s ruling.
The KTC quoted part of the said ruling which states that:“The Kpones were on the land when the Pramprams arrived and their principal means of subsistence must have been centered in fishing in the Laloi Lagoon. It is, therefore, inconceivable that they would give this away to the first strangers who came among them.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling of 1927 indicated and confirmed the boundary for Kpone, including all the Boroughs, Towns and Villages, all the way from River Adenkesu to the Eastern part of the Laloi Lagoon at a Kpone village, called Kpoi-Ete.
At a media engagement to inform the public about the sour relationship between it and Prampram, due to the festering land boundary dispute, NiiTeyeAmankwahKojoSune I, the Gbetsile Chief, on behalf of the Kpone Paramount Chief, disclosed that the illegal grabbing of Kpone lands and heightened tension started after the installation of Nene TettehWaka II,I as the Chief of Prampram in 2019.
He narrated that on January 14, 2020 the KTC, in a letter referenced KTC/AD.17/V.8/03 appealed to the then Greater Accra Regional Minister to act on the wanton encroachment and destruction of properties by the Prampram people on the boundaries of Kpone.
To settle the matter, both sides petitioned the Lands Commission about the issue in a letter with reference number KTC/AD.17/Vol.8/11 – after which a roadmap was set out to close the case.
“A letter dated February 28, 2020 was sent to the Lands Commission requesting it to determine and confirm the common boundary between the two traditional areas. In view of that, the Lands Commission in a reply on June 4, 2020 referenced AO5/137/TJ/03 and scheduled a meeting to meet both parties on June 10, 2020where both parties had their representatives at the meeting. Both parties paid all fees required for the amicable determination of the said boundaries after estimates were given by the Lands Commission in a letter dated September 23, 2020 with reference number AO5/137/TJ/07.
“The Lands Commission, as part of the roadmap, was supposed to re-delineate our boundaries based on the consent judgment of the 1927 ruling of the Supreme Court and the Jackson Report of 1956, but the Osuwem family of Prampram has put impediments on the process and has poured land guards on the land, who are destroying properties legally acquired from the Kpone stool and reselling the lands to their clients.
“Our Paramount Chief, on February 10, this year, sent a letter to the Director of Police CID to intervene in the activities of land guards in the area but no action has been taken. Other petitions to the Police Director of Operations to intervene in these chaotic acts have not had the needed penetration to alter the frightening spate of unjustified attacks on our people. We don’t want to believe that some people have taken sides in this matter, hence their loud silence to act on our petitions.
“Indeed, as a people of a tribe and under a Paramount Chief with proud culture and customary practices, we cannot be said to be unaware of limitations to our common boundaries with our neighbours, which are duly documented and is on record.
“It is on record that the people of Kpone have never had any skirmishes with Prampram, concerning our common interests during the tenure of all the past chiefs of Prampram, until the current chief was installed, but we want to be blunt by telling him that the people of Kpone are calm but not cowards.
“We, through the media, entreat the Lands Commission, Ghana Police Service, Regional House of Chiefs and all who matter in building peace to call Prampram to order before we lose our temper,” Nii Teye Amankwah Kojo Sune I said.
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