These are the words of the author,"Indeed the fight was about royalties for logging at the Kranya-Akura area and claims of ownership of the lands where the trees were being felled. Gonjas at Talkpa who are in charge of the ar ... read full comment
These are the words of the author,"Indeed the fight was about royalties for logging at the Kranya-Akura area and claims of ownership of the lands where the trees were being felled. Gonjas at Talkpa who are in charge of the area sent their emissaries to demand for royalties and one was killed. That is the truth. A Gonja was first."
This is my response, You have no regard for the court system or the Government for that matter. Why don't you settle your issues with the Government and your neighbours in court?
EVANS KOJO 9 years ago
THIS IS TIME THEY CAN SETTLE THE ISSUES AT THE COURT, BEFORE THE WAS NO ISSUES. NOW THAT THE COURT WILL ADDRESS THE PROBLEM EVEN THOUGH THE POLICE DON'T EVEN KNOW THEIR WORK.
THIS IS TIME THEY CAN SETTLE THE ISSUES AT THE COURT, BEFORE THE WAS NO ISSUES. NOW THAT THE COURT WILL ADDRESS THE PROBLEM EVEN THOUGH THE POLICE DON'T EVEN KNOW THEIR WORK.
Ebenezer 9 years ago
Do you mean they should have asked a court to order the payment of the royalties? But I think they can do that only if they send emissaries to demand the royalties and then the payees refused to pay. But he says one of the em ... read full comment
Do you mean they should have asked a court to order the payment of the royalties? But I think they can do that only if they send emissaries to demand the royalties and then the payees refused to pay. But he says one of the emissaries was killed.
I think it is at this point that they should have sent the matter to the police or the court. What they did wrong was the retaliation that resulted in more deaths, not the sending of emissaries to demand royalties.
Asiwome 9 years ago
These are the words following the first quotation,"Another bizarre part is paragraph 11 which says: "He (Nana Kwaku Latah V) explained that river Bunjari had been used by the Lands Commission during the Nkrumah regime as a re ... read full comment
These are the words following the first quotation,"Another bizarre part is paragraph 11 which says: "He (Nana Kwaku Latah V) explained that river Bunjari had been used by the Lands Commission during the Nkrumah regime as a regional boundary between the Northern and the Brong- Ahafo regions”. River Bunjari near the Black Volta and the Black Volta River itself are not necessarily a marker of stool or skin lands but purely for administrative purposes."
Ebenezer 9 years ago
Well yes, that quote shows the land was in dispute. Perhaps we need more background to this incidence. The argument, as I understand it is that, political borders do not coincide with traditional borders and the fact that the ... read full comment
Well yes, that quote shows the land was in dispute. Perhaps we need more background to this incidence. The argument, as I understand it is that, political borders do not coincide with traditional borders and the fact that the other part of the Gonja land has fallen in another district doesn't mean the traditional entitlements have also been done away with.
But you're right, Asiwome, that the land itself must have been long in dispute since the division was made during the early part of the Nkrumah regime. Perhaps court cases too have been going on for that length of time. The writer didn't say so we are not sure but can guess that. So the people may have already taken the matter to court but have had no redress.
Anyway, none of the parties has the right to take the law into its own hands to the extent of killing people. We can only hope that the police will take the matter seriously as a purely criminal case of murder and prosecute the guilty parties on both sides.
It would have been nice to hear from the other side too.
But the whole case shows the effects of modern political systems on our traditional systems. Even the whole of the Gonja area was divided among the British and the Germans in the early part of the last century. Eastern Gonja was a German Togoland territory that was part of Trans-Volta Togoland when the Germans lost the First World War and was fully integrated into Ghana just before our independence (exact date of integration in December 1956). But there are still land disputes in Ghana that have nothing to do with colonial administrative divisions or post-independence divisions.
These are the words of the author,"Indeed the fight was about royalties for logging at the Kranya-Akura area and claims of ownership of the lands where the trees were being felled. Gonjas at Talkpa who are in charge of the ar ...
read full comment
THIS IS TIME THEY CAN SETTLE THE ISSUES AT THE COURT, BEFORE THE WAS NO ISSUES. NOW THAT THE COURT WILL ADDRESS THE PROBLEM EVEN THOUGH THE POLICE DON'T EVEN KNOW THEIR WORK.
Do you mean they should have asked a court to order the payment of the royalties? But I think they can do that only if they send emissaries to demand the royalties and then the payees refused to pay. But he says one of the em ...
read full comment
These are the words following the first quotation,"Another bizarre part is paragraph 11 which says: "He (Nana Kwaku Latah V) explained that river Bunjari had been used by the Lands Commission during the Nkrumah regime as a re ...
read full comment
Well yes, that quote shows the land was in dispute. Perhaps we need more background to this incidence. The argument, as I understand it is that, political borders do not coincide with traditional borders and the fact that the ...
read full comment