Queenmother of Kwabenya Community in the Greater Accra Region, Naa Korkoi Dugbatey, has warned some members of the Ga Traditional Council (GTC) to desist from their habit of collecting money from illegitimate persons and installing them as chiefs of Ga State.
She said the act of installing illegitimate people as chiefs was breeding confusion and violence in the various communities in the Ga State, and for that matter, stressed the need for government to intervene and call those involved in such acts to order.
Addressing a durbar of chiefs and people during the celebration of this year’s annual yam festival of the people of Kwabenya community, Naa Korkoi Dugbatey, who spoke in the Ga dialect stressed that these illegitimate persons who found themselves as chiefs only concentrate on the vast stretch of virgin lands and sell them for their selfish interest.
She revealed that Theophilus Ankamah Aryee, who claims to be the Chief of Kwabenya, and others as examples of persons inducted into the traditional council even when there were court judgments against these persons over lack of capacity.
“…that is how come we have been having cases of indiscriminate sale of lands, the breeding of land guards in our communities and contract killings. These things must stop,” she fumed.
She revealed that groups such as the United Nation (UN) Land Guards based in Bortianor and Sowutuom, all in Accra, are handiworks of such illegitimate chiefs and that the time has come for government to do everything possible to disband such groups for peace to prevail in the various communities in Accra.
She, therefore, appealed to government to help stop the growing menace of land guards who are going about installing themselves as chiefs.
She further appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to warn management of Ghana Atomic Energy and Lands Commission to stop selling Atomic lands to developers without the knowledge of the queenmother and the rightful owners since Kwabenya has not yet installed any chief since the death of their late chief.
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