Residents of the otherwise peaceful Boadi Village, near Kumasi now live in terror with their very lives threatened by land guards who are said to have taken the Ashanti Region by storm, according to the Independent.
Three houses have so far been pulled down in the area by the guards hired by certain influential citizens of the little town and backed by the queenmother Nana Tutuwah to protect their interest, with damages estimated at about one hundred and fifty million cedis.
Investigations by the paper indicate that the Huahi Royal Family of the Asona clan, which administer Boadi as a trust territory is frustrating developers, who acquire the land from the original royal custodians of the village.
The house is now divided into two factions; the Asantehene’s appointed queenmother, Nana Huahi Tutuwaah II on one side against the original custodians of the Boadi stool.
The supposed Boadi royal family has accused the queenmother, Nana Tutuwaah II of leasing lands at Boadi without giving them their due share of the proceeds.
This according to some residents is causing disaffection among the two royal families who had hitherto lived together peacefully.
Nana Kwame Konadu in an interview, told the paper that several appeals to the queenmother to ensure a fair share of the land proceeds had fallen on deaf ears, including an intervention by the then Asantehene, Otumfuo Opoku Ware. The Asantehene had in, an arbitration ruled some eight years ago that proceeds from the sale of the lands in the area should be shared among four parties namely, the queenmother, the royal family, stool of the town and the community.
The persistent failure of the queenmother to respond to the peaceful moves by the other family led them, upon advise from their legal counsel to also start selling some plot of lands but she engaged the guards to unleash vandalism on them.
