The Land Settlement Question and Politics in Brong Ahafo

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kofi 12 years ago

Asemsebe.That is NDC for you

Asemsebe.That is NDC for you
Osibrekete 12 years ago

You are right, young man. I remember when the region was created, no one accepted us. We became strangers
in our own country. I still think we are not part of ghana. But with guys like there seems to be some hope.

You are right, young man. I remember when the region was created, no one accepted us. We became strangers
in our own country. I still think we are not part of ghana. But with guys like there seems to be some hope.
K. Boateng 12 years ago

Please, stop insulting we the Bonos with your lies and desperate attempts to distort our history. I just wanted to treat this piece of yours with the contempt that it deserves but I have to hasten to expose one particular lie ...
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Please, stop insulting we the Bonos with your lies and desperate attempts to distort our history. I just wanted to treat this piece of yours with the contempt that it deserves but I have to hasten to expose one particular lie and misinformation in your article, that Asiedu Nketia speaks Seikwa? Hahaha, you see how you've exposed your ignorance? Seikwa is a town in the Bono Ahafo Region and in the Tain District to be precise. They speak NKORAN, together with the people of Badu and others at Nkonsia near Wenchi who make up the Koramo people. Seikwa is neither a dialect nor a language but rather the name of a town in the same way Kumasi is a town and the people there speak asante but do not speak Kumasi as a language, Helloooo.

And for your information, it was the people of Seikwa who salvaged and protected your asante masters when they were migrating from Ivory Coast to the present day Ghana and were captured by the Bono-Techimans, leading to both the Seikwa people and the asantes pledging support for each other, hence seeing themselves as brothers/sister until today. But one quick question though, claiming that Collins Dauda, Owusu Acheampong, etc were from here and there, who in Ghana didn't migrate from somewhere? Didn't asantes migrate from the Mali areas before settling in the Ivory Coast and finally settling in the present day Ghana? How about the Gas who are historically known to have migrated from Nigeria? Please, stop exhibiting your ingorance and hate for others with your shallow distortions of history.

Kofi Boateng, A true Bono from Bono Techiman
Kyereme 12 years ago

Our beautiful language is going extinct and nobody cares. Are we still under the yoke of Asantes ?

Our beautiful language is going extinct and nobody cares. Are we still under the yoke of Asantes ?
K Boateng 12 years ago

The way this Kwabena Diawuo Sarpong guy described the late Nana Techimanhene Akumfi Ameyaw and his associates who laid their lives down to extricate the Bonos from the disrespect and insults of asantes, points to the fact tha ...
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The way this Kwabena Diawuo Sarpong guy described the late Nana Techimanhene Akumfi Ameyaw and his associates who laid their lives down to extricate the Bonos from the disrespect and insults of asantes, points to the fact that he has an axe to grind with them and that is his own cup of tea because never again will we, the Bono Techimans, be subjugated to the asantes. Kwabena Diawuo's assertion that those Bono leaders were in a way manipulated by Kwame Nkrumah for political expedience is never true and a big insult to their memory because my Bono ancestors from Techiman had long agitated to break away from the asantes long before Nkrumah became head of state and Eva L. R. Meyerowith (1962) vividly captures why Bonos never wanted to be part of asante. She reproduces part of a commission constituted by the then British colonial government headed by the then Nene Mate Korle and states thus "...these people (the Bonos) have been regarded and treated with every possible contempt by Asantes in the past. There is no gainsaying that the so-called historic unity of Asante has all along been a unity maintained by a strong suppressing hand at the sacrifice of the freedom and happiness for the non-Asante peoples like the Bonos" (pg. 230).

Mr Diawuo, there you have it; do you still want your freedom and happiness to be suppressed, insulted and be disrespected by the Asantes and be classified as a second class human being simply because you're a Bono? For what reason?
Also, your assertion that the then Ahafo leaders from Kukuom, etc were part of the creation of Bono Ahafo is not true. It all started when in 1950 the late Nana Akumfi Ameyaw of Techiman succinctly refused to attend the asanteman council meeting, followed in 1951 by the then Nana Dormaahene Agyeman Badu when he defiantly left the grounds of an asanteman council meeting, culminating in a meeting of Tehcimanhene, Dormaahene, Abeasehene, and Drobohene at Techiman on February 9th, 1951 and decided to completely breakaway from the Asanteman council once and for all. It must be placed on record that the Omanhene of Nkoranza vehemently opposed this moves due to their historical ties with asantes, and so did some of the Ahafo leaders.

Mr. Diawuo, I don't know where in the Bono Ahafo area you hail from but I must hasten to add that no true Bono citizen will call him/herself as Brong; we're Bonos. Also, you're not the only one who knows about our history so stop being clouded by your political lenses to insult those who have done everything possible for the welfare of our people. What was Busia's or J. H. Mensah's role in the extrication of Bonos from the clutches of asante domination? I'll find time to religiously respond to this distortions and insults from you.

Reference
Meyerowitz, E. L. R. (1962). At the court of an African king. London, GB: Latimer Trend & Co.

Bononiba Kofi Boateng.
K Boateng 12 years ago

Mr. Diawuo is reminded that Dr. J. B. Danquah, Kwame Nkrumah's political adversary, was the lawyer for Bono-Techimanhene in their land dispute with the asantes. Therefore, the question of Nkrumah manipulating the Bono leaders ...
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Mr. Diawuo is reminded that Dr. J. B. Danquah, Kwame Nkrumah's political adversary, was the lawyer for Bono-Techimanhene in their land dispute with the asantes. Therefore, the question of Nkrumah manipulating the Bono leaders for his political gain is neither here no there and it's an insult to their intelligence as you seek to suggest that they had no mind of their own to realize the inhumane and ill-treatment being meted out to them by the asantes.
ONUA 12 years ago

You keep writing Asante with a small letter a, instead of A as you did for Bono, sometimes the inferiority of the Bono is too much, you clearly believe writing Asante 'asante' makes you feel big and them small, how so? By the ...
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You keep writing Asante with a small letter a, instead of A as you did for Bono, sometimes the inferiority of the Bono is too much, you clearly believe writing Asante 'asante' makes you feel big and them small, how so? By the way there was nothing like Asante tribe during the break up of the Great Akan family at Techiman. The Asante tribe started with the 'Twum ne Antwi' brothers followed by their nephew Obiri Yeboah, then of course the great one:Osei Tutu nyamekese, as the Asantes call him, before who Asante was an insignificant group
MINOR CASE 12 years ago

I see you are a very proud Bono man . The problem with Bonos is that ,they are still ashamed to speak their brand of Twi and would rather speak Asante Twi. Why is it so ? True emancipation means being proud of your culture a ...
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I see you are a very proud Bono man . The problem with Bonos is that ,they are still ashamed to speak their brand of Twi and would rather speak Asante Twi. Why is it so ? True emancipation means being proud of your culture and expressing it for the world to see.
BISHOP 12 years ago

Diawuo, You are a foolish man to have written this divisive tribal
article on Ghana web. When the going gets tough the NPP have always turned to tribalism. "Some"of you in the NPP believe red blood runs through your veins wh ...
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Diawuo, You are a foolish man to have written this divisive tribal
article on Ghana web. When the going gets tough the NPP have always turned to tribalism. "Some"of you in the NPP believe red blood runs through your veins whiles green blood runs through
the vein of other Ghanaians.

You attack all tribes and call them names when they intend bind together and vote against you in an election you then call them tribalistic forgetting that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Talking about "foreigners" taking over your land is the most useless thing to have come from your ass. Is Ghana not for every Ghanaian? Arent Bonos and Ahafos buying properties all over Ghana like all other Ghanaians?

What have we not done to Ga/Adamges in Accra? Almost all Ghanaians have descended down on their land and have almost taken everything away from them yet the Ga man does not complain because he understands that we are all Ghanaians and as such have a right to live wherever we choose to.

This intolerable/tribalistic actions of some of the NPP will continue to alienate more open minded people from the NPP and dwindle the parties fortunes until dunder heads like you wise up to the global world we all live in.

Your types love to travel the most to other peoples home seeking asylum and all those crap and yet remains the most homophobic of all Ghanaian groups. Beware for circumstances do change. No condition is permament.
Mr F London 12 years ago

I used to beat up any one who laughed at my Bono dialect. I still speak typical Bono. I never laugh at anybody's language. Next time, Minor, be serious!

I used to beat up any one who laughed at my Bono dialect. I still speak typical Bono. I never laugh at anybody's language. Next time, Minor, be serious!

diaba k 12 years ago

Kofi, all what Diawuo was concerned was the land which Brong/Ahafo region is loosing every day to foreigners or settlers.

Forget about who fought for the separation of Brong/Ahafo from Ashanti region, the real fact is that ...
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Kofi, all what Diawuo was concerned was the land which Brong/Ahafo region is loosing every day to foreigners or settlers.

Forget about who fought for the separation of Brong/Ahafo from Ashanti region, the real fact is that the land of the region is going away.
I do not know how far it is true but i read some where last year that a chunk of land has been given to one Chinese company. And the one who gave up the land had become a share holder in the said company.

My question is: Is it possible for a company in Africa to get a land in China?

My clan in a village in Kumasi had a land for farming. As the township started expanding, the greedy relatives started selling the land to foreigners, at the moment, i can comfortable say that there is NO land for my young relatives.

In most cases the leaders or the elders become so greedy and do not care what would happen the other members of the family when they are gone to next world.

Anyway for the sake of History, i can only say that it was very convenient for Dr Nkrumah to separate Brong Ahafo region from the Ashanti region to weaken the strength of NLM which joined other parties to form UP (United Party) under Dr. KA Busia.

Before then, i never read any sign that 'YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE BRONG AHAFO REGION' in the early 1950 when i visited my late father who was farming at Yamfo. The Yamfohene at that time was called Nana Adu Yaw.
God bless.
ONUA 12 years ago

was Yamfo Rangers F.C. there at the time? it was such a wonderful town during the late '50s through the early '80s. Yeah, Nana Adu Yaw was destooled during Nkrumah's regime and a young[pioneer and an ardent CPPian] Nana Boama ...
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was Yamfo Rangers F.C. there at the time? it was such a wonderful town during the late '50s through the early '80s. Yeah, Nana Adu Yaw was destooled during Nkrumah's regime and a young[pioneer and an ardent CPPian] Nana Boamah alias Degaule was enstooled, doesn't that tell you something about how Nkrumah played politics with the Region?
diaba k 12 years ago

ONUA, I agree Dr. Nkrumah played politics with the region. But do you blame him? He needed support to weaken the NLM as He knew the heart or main base of the party was the Ashanti region. Don't forget that at war your enemy's ...
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ONUA, I agree Dr. Nkrumah played politics with the region. But do you blame him? He needed support to weaken the NLM as He knew the heart or main base of the party was the Ashanti region. Don't forget that at war your enemy's enemy is your friend.

I remeber very well that Nana Adu Yaw was destooled and his nephew was enstooled.
Nana Boamah was obviously a CPP man but what i can not recollect properly is whether Young Pioneer movement had been formed.

I did class 1 and 2 at Yamfo Roman Catholic School and continued at Bremang R/C Primary in 1956. Until 1967 I used to visit my old man who had a farm at Tanomu. His farm was a stone throw away from some farmers from Abisim.

I do not quite remember the name of Yamfo football club but i still remember that my old man used to organise a football match between Bremang (Ksi) team (Backpool?) and the Yamfo team. I was still young but i did enjoy the game.

Once more i still feel that Diawuo's write-up was more about the land which is getting out of the hands of native Bonos.
May be we have to find time and chat properly.
Enjoy your day.
Yaw Poku, USA 12 years ago

Stupid Kofi Boateng people in Kumasi, dumb ass do not speak asante. They rather speak "TWI"

Stupid Kofi Boateng people in Kumasi, dumb ass do not speak asante. They rather speak "TWI"
K Boateng 12 years ago

Dumbass YAW Poku, USA (akuraseni with USA added to his name), people in Kumasi speak Asante Twi just Akwampims speak Akwampim, aboaba, learn.

Dumbass YAW Poku, USA (akuraseni with USA added to his name), people in Kumasi speak Asante Twi just Akwampims speak Akwampim, aboaba, learn.
Yaw Poku, USA 12 years ago

From many of your comments and vituperations against Ashanti which I happened to read you have problems which will eventually will land you in the grave Mr. Benkoto. Bushman from Techiman, Asante will forever reign supreme ov ...
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From many of your comments and vituperations against Ashanti which I happened to read you have problems which will eventually will land you in the grave Mr. Benkoto. Bushman from Techiman, Asante will forever reign supreme over your tiny Brong because Ahafo is part of the greater Ashanti and there is nothing, I say absolutely nothing that you can do to change it.
K. Boateng 12 years ago

Empty loudmouth Bushman from the asante bush, primitive asantes like you will forever live in childish illusions thinking erronously that you own a country but have none.

Empty loudmouth Bushman from the asante bush, primitive asantes like you will forever live in childish illusions thinking erronously that you own a country but have none.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

As you all know, these matters interest me a lot. I've put fwd my solutions to these land problems and I shall re-post here.

Anyway, I shudder to read fellow Ghanaians being referred to as "foreigners" and "settlers", eve ...
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As you all know, these matters interest me a lot. I've put fwd my solutions to these land problems and I shall re-post here.

Anyway, I shudder to read fellow Ghanaians being referred to as "foreigners" and "settlers", even though, as an Ewe we daily read from the Brotherhood on Ghanaweb shall soon be deported back to Togo, I should be used to that by now. But I am not. It brings home to me each time how backward we are as people! Now that Ken has been to prison and realised that Ghanaians are not civilised and ready to join some of us who have been saying that for years now publicly, perhaps, we may see our day of Enlightenment dawn in our life times! Not all of you reading this though, as the great oarsman, Kutsiami, has already set sail to pick you!:-)

It is interesting some people play the tribal card, whip up ethnocentric sentiments and then turn around to blame others for their actions! This problem pre-dated the NDC but somehow, the NDC is being blamed for it! Why not the NPP too?

Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

This PART 2 of a two part series.

TAMING THE GHANAIAN STATE: REFORMING CHIEFTAINCY. PART 2.

Part 2 deals with some few suggestions on reforming the institution of chieftaincy in order to do away with the debilitating c ...
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This PART 2 of a two part series.

TAMING THE GHANAIAN STATE: REFORMING CHIEFTAINCY. PART 2.

Part 2 deals with some few suggestions on reforming the institution of chieftaincy in order to do away with the debilitating conflicts and issues surrounding it, if we are not going to abolish the “archaic” institution outright, as some rather prefer. Doing that will also involve a radical reform of the present state structures of governance. I shall leave the arguments for this position for a latter day. My position is therefore a compromise between the ”royalists” and the “abolitionists”. After all, the State, a modern imposition much in need of legitimacy, is equally at fault, even more so, in the spate of chieftaincy disputes and land conflicts due to the dysfunctional institutional structures and laws to govern and develop the country.

I was not impressed when I learned that the NPP regime was about to pass a new Chieftaincy Act. Having seen their actions, (acting reactionarily in some cases by returning lands already under government control to the Asantehene in particular, while dragging their feet on Ga lands - which evidence emerged when out of office - they were busily sequestering for themselves, and on the verge of leaving office shoddily ordering the release of some state lands to the Gas as a token), I knew that they’d just create an unwholesome can of worms for the next administration. I therefore doubted very much if the Act as proposed by the NPP hold any progressive developments in shaping the institutions of chieftaincy and national governance and development. The whole debate must therefore be revisited alongside President Mills’ Constitutional Review agenda.

It is clear the nefarious, miseducated national elite who in the past had frown on the chieftaincy institution as a bastion of illiterates and reactionaries, a hindrance to development, for reasons I would not delve into here, have gradually transformed into one which now covert the institution and see it as a crowning glory to be made chiefs; or just another key avenue to seek rent from the land resources that such a position brings. We are gradually getting a convergence of the national and traditional elite, as many key chiefs are part of the national elite; can boast of the same level of educational attainment and even better than key bureaucrats and politicians. The attempts to buy into chieftaincies and/usurp will therefore increase if steps are not taken to curb this development. A register of rightful candidates is therefore required, as recently mentioned again by the Ministry of Chieftaincy Affairs though this request dates back to the late 1970s.

We ought to rationalise the system too, with special titles created for conferment on individuals who have distinguished themselves and done something substantially good for the community. Already, precedents exist aplenty but just a few will suffice. British royalty are [in]famous for selling their titles to rich people, from America in particular; apart from the Queen regularly bestowing titles on some deserving individuals. In Ghana, non-royals had actually been rewarded with chieftaincy stools, for their valour or contributions in wars in particular in the past. In fact, many chieftaincy stools originated in that way. In the past in Anlo society, in addition to the foregoing, wealthy individuals had created for themselves what is known as “hozikpui” - wealth stool - which is not inheritable. Today, Akan chiefs often award titles such as Nkonsuhene, development chief, to even foreigners who contributed a few $100s to village projects. We therefore need to be more creative in democratising entitlement to the chieftaincy accolade.

ABOLISH REGIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS

The non-performance of the Regional House of Chiefs, especially the moribund VR House of Chiefs, to resolve conflicts, partly because the State has not equipped them with the requisite human and financial resources, (plaintiffs and defendants even have to pay the sitting allowances on cases), clearly show these modern creations have failed in their assigned duties and must be scrapped in some regions and replaced with District Judicial Chambers of Chiefs (DJCC). A VR Judicial Council of Chiefs in which no Anlo chief is sitting at the moment to resolve issues on Anlo is an anomaly, as it flaunts the very premise for handing over to them such powers, that is, they have the requisite knowledge about customary norms and practices to better adjudicate over customary issues. No wonder they have displayed their incompetence and lack of interest in resolving a dispute which does not concern nor affect their areas of jurisdiction such as the Anlo Awoamefia dispute. They must be scrapped in the constitutional review in progress or in the future. They have proved themselves to be totally useless and a colossal waste of time.

ESTABLISH DISTRICT JUDICIAL CHAMBERS OF CHIEFS

In place of the disbanded Regional Houses of Chiefs should be created District Judicial Chambers (DJCC), whose membership shall include respective kingmakers of the area and some specialised individuals to be determined in each area of jurisdiction.

Chieftaincy disputes should only go to the new DJCC for arbitration when the two parties agreed. No one can be installed as chief unless the DJCC approved, if a dispute is brought before it. Otherwise, the ordinary courts should have the right of being the courts of first instance a party can go to, thereby by-passing the DJCC in case of a dispute. We are in a republic and we must modernise along those lines. By this, I am not suggesting that the so-called ordinary courts of the State are flawless dispensers of justice in Ghana. The intolerable high level of corruption in them and the awfully long years they take to adjudicate over simple matters are well known to the long suffering victims of their gross incompetence in the administration of justice in Ghana. I had already referred to the case of the disgraced Mr Woanya of the Denu High Court in Part 1. The judiciary, along with the Police or security service, are therefore parts and parcel of the rogue State in Ghana and they must be reformed radically too in order to serve the people speedily and without the graft and partisanship we now know are associated with them. The Judiciary and law education in Ghana must therefore also be reformed in order to take upon the added role of settling chieftaincy disputes. Coding and teaching customary law practices must become an essential part of the curriculum of law education and jurisprudence in Ghana.

LAND REFORMS: It deserves special attention. It was high time to place all lands chiefs are supposedly custodians of on behalf of their people – a big farce largely created by the Aborigines Rights Protection Society in the C19th - under the control of District Assemblies, not the central government. I shall briefly summarise the reasons for this position as grounded in the general corruption, incompetence and gross misappropriation into private hands of lands the central government and the Lands Department have displayed in handling land taken over by government since the colonial state was instituted. The Lands Department must be scrapped as it has become one of the most dysfunctional and inept of the institutions foisted on us by the colonialists, and whatever good roles they still perform transferred to district land administrative units. Likewise, taking control of land from the chiefs is simply an act of restoration of the people’s rights to them, as their subjects have grown up, are of age and DO NOT NEED any chiefs to protect their lands for them anymore. There is no need to catalogue the general egregious abuse of lands in the hands of chiefs in Ghana in this piece but it must be done elsewhere to support our case. The evidence abounds that the chiefs did not originally have control over the lands. A few examples will serve to buttress my point and serve as a point of further research to support the advocated position.

Starting from my own Anloland to much of Eweland, no chief has control of any land in custody for his so-called subjects. Clan heads (clan head may become a chief though) and family heads have that control, that is, what is not as yet fragmented and shared to family heads or members already. The Keta lagoon, which is the remaining major resource exploited in common cannot be alienated by the Awoamefia alone without the approval of the chiefs. It should therefore not be difficult to place that under the control of the reformed and empowered District Assembly.

In Northern Ghana, it was only in the late 1970s that the SMC passed a decree transferring allodial rights to land to the chiefs of the four major skins, in return for pledging their support for the infamous UNIGOV idea. This was in pure breach of the traditional norms which had existed for centuries. As recorded in various books, it was the Tendaana, or spiritual heads of each locality who have control of land. That this breach and attempts to enforce the new bounty handed over to the skins was the direct cause of the protracted, devastating and bloody conflict between the Konkombas and allied minority groups on the one hand and the Dagbons, Nanumbas and their allies on the other cannot be disputed. Clearly, this anomaly must be reversed by putting the District Assemblies in charge of land in order for peace to prevail and development to take place in those parts.

Coming down south to Asante, we read from Reindorf (1893:72) about how the Asantehene Opoku Ware was taught to seize the lands of even his deceased chiefs and captains and others conquered in wars, by the defeated then more powerful king of Techiman, Amo Yaw, who succumbed to the treachery of Bafo. It was through the guidance of Amo Yaw that the Techimans also taught the Asantes the art of making the now famous “Asante” gold and silver weights, apart from reforms in the governmental and social organisation of the emerging Asante confederacy. Some old war wounds never healed fully, and today, overlords of Techiman and Kumasi are still locking horns on who control which land area, which led to the rumpus surrounding the Asantehene’s ultimatum referred to in Part 1. Time to take that control of land from both of them. We are in a republic!

I believe these suggestions shall go a long way to stop the blatant cases of abuse associated with land use in Ghana and curb the desire of would-be chieftaincy post buyers. An interesting contribution to the debate was made by Otchere Darko on Ghanaweb. For work to begin on the reforms, we have to return to the CPP legislations of 1958 under which the Songhor Lagoon, for instance, was vested under state control as a starting point.

LIMITING THE TERMS OF CHIEFS

An innovation will be limiting the terms of chiefs to seven years, even in areas where chiefs are not destooled such as Eweland and Ga-Adangme, in conformity with suggestions for modernisation by C.O.C. Amate in his book, The Making of Ada, Woeli Publishing Services, 1999, with the option for re-election as long as the king-makers and the subjects deem the person fit to continue as chief. This will make chiefs to serve their people selflessly and with dedication.

The power of the State to “recognise chiefs” or destool chiefs by gazetting or de-gazetting must fall away. Once a chief is properly installed, he must be automatically recognised as chief; any need for gazetting must be a mere formality. The reformed ordinary courts shall have a final say in any dispute over chieftaincy.

RESTRUCTURING THE DISTRICT ASSEMBLIES

District assemblies shall be restructured to include representatives of the various paramountcies in each district. At present, central government appoints some members, supposedly with the consultation of the chiefs. We have already heard enough complaints from the chiefs that they were hardly consulted. I propose that a proportion of those appointed members should be directly appointed by the paramount chiefs in consultation with their own traditional councils and chiefs.

Chiefs should be formally and legally allowed to engage in politics, just as they do in Nigeria to no detrimental effects. In fact, they already openly do de facto in many cases. Let them do so de jure, as it’d be a positive development in the body politic. It will help to disperse the current tribal loyalties and politics, as citizens identify with political parties on issues rather on the basis of which ethnic group one comes from.

Andy C. Y. Kwawukume
cyandyk@ymail.com

London
April 2011
awonaniba 12 years ago

Obama is d president of America. Goway u. Owusu acheampong and asiedu nketia are more BA dan u

Obama is d president of America. Goway u. Owusu acheampong and asiedu nketia are more BA dan u

Anna 12 years ago

Thank God,land problems are not unique to Accra/Gamei.fairness and equity start from Accra, lets join forces to fight this problem so peace will prevail in Ghana for us and our children

Thank God,land problems are not unique to Accra/Gamei.fairness and equity start from Accra, lets join forces to fight this problem so peace will prevail in Ghana for us and our children
yaw atebubu 12 years ago

you arent making any sense at all ,,, you are a disgrace to the region,,,am disappointed

you arent making any sense at all ,,, you are a disgrace to the region,,,am disappointed
CK 12 years ago

STUPID ARTICLE FOR THE STOMACH. TYPICAL MATEMEHO MENTALITY.

STUPID ARTICLE FOR THE STOMACH. TYPICAL MATEMEHO MENTALITY.
Pumpuni 12 years ago

When the true sons speak, the "foreigners shudder".
Thank you for shedding light on this issue!!!

When the true sons speak, the "foreigners shudder".
Thank you for shedding light on this issue!!!
Ofosu 12 years ago

As all the chife in brong are now thief, dormaa and sunyani Abesim, selling lands to 2 to 4 people at the same time. Abesim Chief collided with one small ohen from one veliage in dormaa to fraud me, where now Abesime hene sai ...
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As all the chife in brong are now thief, dormaa and sunyani Abesim, selling lands to 2 to 4 people at the same time. Abesim Chief collided with one small ohen from one veliage in dormaa to fraud me, where now Abesime hene said he dont know since he did not take part of the deal which l know he was part of it. allow sunyani one queen mother to demolish my house for free clam she is the owner of the land as another 2 people clam they bought it from dormaa chief and abisem.
Alhaji Brutus 07 06 6,30 12 years ago

Ofosu the son of a pig.

Ofosu the son of a pig.
Ofosu 12 years ago

the son of all animals...u are the curse of your mothers prostitution with the animal she sleep with to have you. do you know what they did to me? if you are in Ghana..if you like l take you to where they fraud me...i meet a ...
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the son of all animals...u are the curse of your mothers prostitution with the animal she sleep with to have you. do you know what they did to me? if you are in Ghana..if you like l take you to where they fraud me...i meet abisem hene and gave him drinks..but he later told me to go away as he can not do anything...and allow sunyani obaa kntua hene to use budozer to bring my house down..and no where to get my money idiot like you if is u.
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khirsten 12 years ago

Thanks for this wonderful piece, we the Bonos will have to emancipate our mindset because hardly do you hear radio stations from other towns speak Bono BUT you hear fante, akwapim been spoken on Bono radio waves.Even high pro ...
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Thanks for this wonderful piece, we the Bonos will have to emancipate our mindset because hardly do you hear radio stations from other towns speak Bono BUT you hear fante, akwapim been spoken on Bono radio waves.Even high profile bonos will speak asante twi instead of bono for fear of being branded uncivilized. Lets be proud of being Bonos.
tain 12 years ago

Bogus write-up

Bogus write-up

Kofi 12 years ago

It's a disgrace that people write these kind of articles in which they try to imply political manipuations with tribal twists! so there are actually "key Akans"? Wow! Obviously, when you claim independence from Ghana for your ...
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It's a disgrace that people write these kind of articles in which they try to imply political manipuations with tribal twists! so there are actually "key Akans"? Wow! Obviously, when you claim independence from Ghana for your "akan republic", your usual "I'm-better-than-you" attitude would still come to play! You people are so funny!
Mr F London 12 years ago

Kwabena Gyam, mo opeafo! That is the message! You are not being tribalistic but nationalistic for you were born of a tribe to belong to a nation, and when only your vote is bought, what can you say when you are marginalized? ...
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Kwabena Gyam, mo opeafo! That is the message! You are not being tribalistic but nationalistic for you were born of a tribe to belong to a nation, and when only your vote is bought, what can you say when you are marginalized? Na who cause am? Nana Yaa Asantewaa said: "If you men of Asante would not go, we the women will.." Abusua, let us then mobilize our youth who are being lured away with bye-day money to look far and begin a struggle, a struggle to also belong to Ghana. I shall get in touch.
Erick 12 years ago

I hope apart from your village you dont plan owning or already own any property in Accra, Kumasi or elswhere.

Very soon every Ghanaian can only own a property in their region so we will end what some of you will start.

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I hope apart from your village you dont plan owning or already own any property in Accra, Kumasi or elswhere.

Very soon every Ghanaian can only own a property in their region so we will end what some of you will start.

Thank you
Nana Twi 12 years ago

well spoken, can u imagine that in Techiman which is the first Akan state notherner is applying 4 de position of MCE. This unbelivable n unacceptable

well spoken, can u imagine that in Techiman which is the first Akan state notherner is applying 4 de position of MCE. This unbelivable n unacceptable
VAQ 12 years ago

GHANA HAS TEN STATES AND AMERICA HAS 50. CASE CLOSE, THE REST IS JUST BELLONY LIKE THE ITALIANS SAY IN BROOKLYN, NY. YOU PEOPLE LOVE TO DIVIDE, THAT IS ALL YOU ARE ALWAYS INTERESTED IN DOING. WE ARE JUST ONE BIG FAMILY.

GHANA HAS TEN STATES AND AMERICA HAS 50. CASE CLOSE, THE REST IS JUST BELLONY LIKE THE ITALIANS SAY IN BROOKLYN, NY. YOU PEOPLE LOVE TO DIVIDE, THAT IS ALL YOU ARE ALWAYS INTERESTED IN DOING. WE ARE JUST ONE BIG FAMILY.
Ghanabiya 12 years ago

This man, I do not know what is your problem. If you are not happy that Kwame Nkrumah saved your people from the suzerainty of your Over Lords, the Ashantis, you had 2 chances to go back to that yoke of Ashanti imperialism - ...
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This man, I do not know what is your problem. If you are not happy that Kwame Nkrumah saved your people from the suzerainty of your Over Lords, the Ashantis, you had 2 chances to go back to that yoke of Ashanti imperialism - once under the PP government of Prof. Busia and the second, under the NPP government of President Kufour.

Why did you not take those opportunities? Today, out of frustration, you are whipping ethnic hatred against your fellow countrymen simply because they do not belong to your ethnic tribe and calling them foreigners. Shame on you.

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