Achimota School to check encroachment with 'high' wall

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duodu ln Düsseldorf 6 years ago

Why were we not informed ? Old BOYS in Germany.

Why were we not informed ? Old BOYS in Germany.
K.K. 6 years ago

We've had this school for decades. What have they done for Ghana? Achimota and all the other 'top' schools have contributed to the lack of development in Ghana.

We've had this school for decades. What have they done for Ghana? Achimota and all the other 'top' schools have contributed to the lack of development in Ghana.
grunah 6 years ago

hate and jealousy are powerful emotions. why don't you channel yours into some prosperity for yourself?

hate and jealousy are powerful emotions. why don't you channel yours into some prosperity for yourself?
AAAA 6 years ago

Encroachers should be prosecuted and JAILED. All the nlocks going into this high wall could be used to build additional classrooms and dormitories.

Encroachers should be prosecuted and JAILED. All the nlocks going into this high wall could be used to build additional classrooms and dormitories.
AAAA 6 years ago

blocks not clocks

blocks not clocks
General 6 years ago

Thieves. Elites stealing from poor traditionalists.

Thieves. Elites stealing from poor traditionalists.
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 6 years ago

Who opened the floodgate for the encroachers to invade the school land? Is it not the very Old Students and the School authority that decided in the mid '90s to sell off some portions of the school land to themselves and elit ...
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Who opened the floodgate for the encroachers to invade the school land? Is it not the very Old Students and the School authority that decided in the mid '90s to sell off some portions of the school land to themselves and elite colleagues, reportedly in order to use the funds realised to develop the school? Some of us condemned the move on the Okyeame Forum. Legon also took a similar decision to sell of some univ. land to lecturers. That was bad. All this amount to abuse of office to expropriate public lands for private use. It started under the NDC and took a vicious turn under the NPP.

Under what they referred to as "In-Filling Policy", they started selling of state acquired land to themselves, in many cases, the bungalows on them too, in the midst of acute shortage of housing for public workers. One would have expected them to be building tower block flats for workers so that a lot of the workers can live close by the ministries as inner city devt in the civilised world have been doing. Rather, we're getting top bureaucrats, soldiers, etc. about to retire, politicians and their cronies taking up such choice lands for a song. Soon, some of the Ga chiefs and families from who the lands were acquired waded into the fray and started selling portions of the lands to other people. That's how the problem of land guards was born and has become intractable to resolve. The elite have no moral authority to deal with it, knowing what they are illegally doing themselves.

By law, if the state does not want to use a land acquired for a purpose anymore, it must be returned to the rightful owners. It cannot be re-sold to private developers for different purpose, as has happened at the School of Mapping and Surveying. The land owners therefore have every right to attempt to get their land back, especially if given under a lease of 99 years, as the case was in the Lashibi lands the CPP under Nkrumah acquired for food and dairy farming to feed Accra. Or, even free for the common weal, as it were in most school lands.

The sordid Achimota elite and their colleagues must therefore face up to the reality of the harm they are inflicting on the future generation through their rent seeking behaviour.

Andy-K
Lori 6 years ago

Long talk. Just get a bulldozer.

Long talk. Just get a bulldozer.
Citizens 6 years ago

Andy-K, when and where did Legon sell its lands to Legon lecturers? What you're saying about Legon are complete lies. Stop peddling those lies.

Andy-K, when and where did Legon sell its lands to Legon lecturers? What you're saying about Legon are complete lies. Stop peddling those lies.
Koo Nimo 6 years ago

There's only one school in Ghana.well revered. OPOKU WARE SCHOOL

There's only one school in Ghana.well revered. OPOKU WARE SCHOOL
Son of Kuziunik 6 years ago

Never heard of it.

Never heard of it.
Akora 6 years ago

Yes we must protect the school which belongs to all Ghanaians. Enough of the land guard nonsense!

Yes we must protect the school which belongs to all Ghanaians. Enough of the land guard nonsense!
serwaa aka Mrs Jasikan 6 years ago

Sir Guggisberg will be so disappointed to see what's happening to achimota. I'm not an old students but it hurts me that the school has to deal with an issue such as this. Its an embarrassment that we can't protect our instit ...
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Sir Guggisberg will be so disappointed to see what's happening to achimota. I'm not an old students but it hurts me that the school has to deal with an issue such as this. Its an embarrassment that we can't protect our institutions.
Ghanaba 6 years ago

This thief of a company called Platinum Investment is the leader of the encroachers. Now that his govt is out of power, please take him on. Besides he's Beninois and is not supposed to own land. He refers to himself as an NDC ...
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This thief of a company called Platinum Investment is the leader of the encroachers. Now that his govt is out of power, please take him on. Besides he's Beninois and is not supposed to own land. He refers to himself as an NDC THUG (I have evidence ) and wastes no time in invoking the name of KOFI ADAMS. KUZUNIK will rule for us in this crucial matter!
Ohene 6 years ago

Mr Trumps initiative of building Mexico Wall

Mr Trumps initiative of building Mexico Wall
ST. GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 6 years ago

DOES UR SCHOOL HAVE A BAORD? OLD STUDENTS SHOULDNT BE MAKING DECISIONS ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOOL. THE PRINCIPAL, STAKEHOLDERS N GOVT MUST APPOINT OLD STUDENTS TO FORMA BOARD. THE WALL IS NOT NECESSARY TO SAVE SCHOOLLANDS. ALL U ...
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DOES UR SCHOOL HAVE A BAORD? OLD STUDENTS SHOULDNT BE MAKING DECISIONS ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOOL. THE PRINCIPAL, STAKEHOLDERS N GOVT MUST APPOINT OLD STUDENTS TO FORMA BOARD. THE WALL IS NOT NECESSARY TO SAVE SCHOOLLANDS. ALL U NEED IS TO USE STREETS TO DEMARCATE WHICH LANDS BELONG TO THE SCHHOOL N WHICH DO NOT. USE THAT MONEY TO CONSTRUCT STREETS OR PLAN THEE SCH WITH STREET NAMES ETC...STREETS THAT RUN VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL WILL FORM THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SCHOOL

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