Plans Afoot to Halt Land Litigations in Ga State

The GaDangbe Council in collaboration with the GaDangbe Youth Council (GYC) are instituting an action plan aimed at arresting the numerous land litigations that have bedevilled the Ga state.

In this direction, a written documentary on GaDangbe lands has been put together by the two sister tribal organisations to be made available to chiefs in the Greater Accra Region for their consumption and to guide them in their customary duty of protecting lands for future generation.

Mr. Ransford A. Lamptey, President of the GYC made this known last week at a mini-festival at Nsakina, a suburb of Accra that called on GaDangbe chiefs to make this year's celebration of the GaDangbe Homowo festival violent free.

The Homowo festival is an annual celebration of the GaDangbe people signifying abundant food for the indegenes during the arrival of their predecesors from the Togolese Township of Anehor to their present location.

According to Ransford Lamptey, the GYC is aware of misunderstandings that arise from the demarcation of stool lands and is working towards resolving those disparities within the shortest possible time.

While bemoaning conflicts that occasionally arise during the celebration of festivities such as the Homowo festival, Lamptey advised the chiefs to desist from back-biting and conflicts to make this year's celebration violent free.

"As it has been happening in some places duirng festivals like this, we do hope we are not going to countenance any problems during this year's festival because the GYC needs to see a violent-free festival", he added in a statement to the chiefs, and called on all chiefs who have problems with any colleague of theirs to inform the GYC for amicable settlement.

The Homowo festival started last weekend in some Ga townships and is expected to run till the end of this month.