Osu chiefs flex muscle over Achimota lands

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Neutral Zone 9 years ago

Eeeeeeeeeh Ghana.

Eeeeeeeeeh Ghana.
GHAA 9 years ago

KUFOUR AND HIS ALI BABA GANG BOUGHT ALL LANDS AND HOUSES IN ACCRA BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE

KUFOUR AND HIS ALI BABA GANG BOUGHT ALL LANDS AND HOUSES IN ACCRA BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE
kwame 9 years ago

NPP LANDS

NPP LANDS
ATSU, HO 9 years ago

Politicians subject themsleves to blackmail in election years and that is unfortunate. The chiefs should se sent to court NOW they can just not hold that nation to ransome. Empty threat after all what are they looking for the ...
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Politicians subject themsleves to blackmail in election years and that is unfortunate. The chiefs should se sent to court NOW they can just not hold that nation to ransome. Empty threat after all what are they looking for the land for? Just marry additional wives and leave nothing for posterity
GHAA 9 years ago

KUFOUR AND HIS ALI BABA GANG BOTH ALL HOUSE AND LANDS IN ACCRA

KUFOUR AND HIS ALI BABA GANG BOTH ALL HOUSE AND LANDS IN ACCRA
kwame 9 years ago

NPP BOUGHT ALL FOR ZERO CEDIS

NPP BOUGHT ALL FOR ZERO CEDIS
nii nuertey abladey 9 years ago

now you are talking like a ga.dont go to court the court is for the rich.lets take all our lands with force,this is only our cocoa and gold . ayekooo

now you are talking like a ga.dont go to court the court is for the rich.lets take all our lands with force,this is only our cocoa and gold . ayekooo
nuertey- asamoah, usa 9 years ago

"SECONDED" !!!!!!!!!

"SECONDED" !!!!!!!!!
Nii Tsokor 9 years ago

Fight, fight, fight. Don't let up.For a long time,various regimes have been taking the people of Osu for granted.

Lands taken by the government have been sold at cheap prices to government cronies after the government use ...
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Fight, fight, fight. Don't let up.For a long time,various regimes have been taking the people of Osu for granted.

Lands taken by the government have been sold at cheap prices to government cronies after the government use had exhausted.

The law says if the use of lands by the state is exhausted, those lands should be given back to the indigenes or the stool.
Obrefo 9 years ago

Achimota lands belong to the Aburis but not you. How long has your people live in Ghana?

Achimota lands belong to the Aburis but not you. How long has your people live in Ghana?

Aj 9 years ago

Obrefo,though I'm not Ga but how can you spew bullshit for heaven sake.these people are talking out of pains which we need to consider the reality it.there is no where in western world do they practice central government syst ...
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Obrefo,though I'm not Ga but how can you spew bullshit for heaven sake.these people are talking out of pains which we need to consider the reality it.there is no where in western world do they practice central government systems it's would surely generate this type of chaos we witness now.what's depriving Ghana to consider Federal states so people would love to stay in their regions... why why every damn thing suppose to be in Accra why won't people ran to even common passport one need to come to Accra,there whole place is chock.
Ga-man 9 years ago

So'Mr Obrefo or whatever you call yourself can you please direct us Ga people to where we came from or what lands are legally ours? because it looks to me like Ghanaians are all against the Ga people.today they say we dont ow ...
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So'Mr Obrefo or whatever you call yourself can you please direct us Ga people to where we came from or what lands are legally ours? because it looks to me like Ghanaians are all against the Ga people.today they say we dont own our lands tomorrow somebody says but how long have you Ga people live in Our country Ghana.Since creation I have never known any tribe or race without a land accept the Ga people.So Mr Obrefo can you make us a favour and direct us to the right direction to go for our God given lands.
Thnak you
Bush Dakta 9 years ago

You ignorant Ga thicko, I'll show you where you incest-loving Gas belong.... You're all Igbos from Nigeria. Your ancestors were banished and chased out of 9ja after they refused to stop indulging in cannibalism. You all arri ...
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You ignorant Ga thicko, I'll show you where you incest-loving Gas belong.... You're all Igbos from Nigeria. Your ancestors were banished and chased out of 9ja after they refused to stop indulging in cannibalism. You all arrived in Ghana like bloody soldier ants, hence, then Ashantis, the Akuapims and all Akans refer to you refugee Gas as "Nkran". Your cousins who, because of cat meat, pretended not able to carry on to refugee camp (Ghana ) settled in #9 camps.. So you tell me, what land the Gas brought to Ghana. Shouldn't all you Ga incest-loving refugees be grateful that Ghana cured you of CANNIBALISM ?
Ga-man 9 years ago

I think you are completely wrong in terms that Ga people are Incest loving and cannibals,very very funny
But about we Ga people been banished
and chased out out 9ja or whatever is completely false,you should go and study y ...
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I think you are completely wrong in terms that Ga people are Incest loving and cannibals,very very funny
But about we Ga people been banished
and chased out out 9ja or whatever is completely false,you should go and study your history well,Ga people dont belong to any of these you have written above.Just a few like the Nkran stuff etc I have reseached upon and its not so its about war and the numbers of the Ga people witness by the Ashantis approaching reported to their chiefs that the people are so many just like Nkran.so go and ask you old folks ingonarant chap.
Ray 9 years ago

This is stupid explanation, mr obrefo..I am not aGa but I don't agree with you . Pls, try to give a respect them.

This is stupid explanation, mr obrefo..I am not aGa but I don't agree with you . Pls, try to give a respect them.
Nii Tsokor 9 years ago

Ga people are not from Nigeria.Nigeria was one of the many rest stops we had to use during our journey from East of the Suez Canal to Greater Accra.

Why don't you bushmen learn as you go ? And why don't you bushmen go back ...
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Ga people are not from Nigeria.Nigeria was one of the many rest stops we had to use during our journey from East of the Suez Canal to Greater Accra.

Why don't you bushmen learn as you go ? And why don't you bushmen go back to South Sudan where you originated from ?
Ansa Sasraku 9 years ago

Obrefo, your post is pointing us to the complex history of the conquest occupation and of these lands.

Obrefo, your post is pointing us to the complex history of the conquest occupation and of these lands.
indigen 9 years ago

Funny!!!!!! Your Land!!! This should not start at all, so what you sold all the land to non indigens now you are whaling. Hmmm if you are considering taking such action, then the real land owners the Akwapims should starting ...
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Funny!!!!!! Your Land!!! This should not start at all, so what you sold all the land to non indigens now you are whaling. Hmmm if you are considering taking such action, then the real land owners the Akwapims should starting demanding the lands from you
you never paid for the land
sedor- US 9 years ago

foolish chief it is chiefs like theae who sold us into slavery

foolish chief it is chiefs like theae who sold us into slavery
odaifio welentsi u will account to ur 9 years ago

n nungua selfstyled chief julor odaifio welentsi sells lands.dis chief needs to be arrested now.dey sold nunsec lands.dey rada destroying gas am callin on e youth to rise against dis bastards.

n nungua selfstyled chief julor odaifio welentsi sells lands.dis chief needs to be arrested now.dey sold nunsec lands.dey rada destroying gas am callin on e youth to rise against dis bastards.

Nii 9 years ago

The people of Osu,had contract or a lease with the civilized British or Europeans.Over the years,the Government has been taken over by mostly thieves from the hinterland.They just have to evacuate the new criminals call Ghana ...
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The people of Osu,had contract or a lease with the civilized British or Europeans.Over the years,the Government has been taken over by mostly thieves from the hinterland.They just have to evacuate the new criminals call Ghanaians from their lands.
TULA 9 years ago

These OSU Chiefs are just wasting their time because all lads in and of Accra have been sold by their greedy Chiefs of the past ;today there are no lands in Accra to bury people ;how are they going to flex their muscles ; are ...
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These OSU Chiefs are just wasting their time because all lads in and of Accra have been sold by their greedy Chiefs of the past ;today there are no lands in Accra to bury people ;how are they going to flex their muscles ; are they gping to employ these rag tag lands guards to stop people from burying their loved ones and are they going to stop the army burial area for burials ; this a futile move ; the problem is that all GA chiefs have no unity ; they are divided and therefore do not have any front to save themselves ; they have already sold the lands on freehold to people and now they are complaining to WHOM are they complaining .
Nii laryea 9 years ago

You can't sell anything you don't own, so boss if some greedy chief who is not gazetted by the government sells u a piece of land that he has no authority to sell then the original owner can claim his land back. Common sense ...
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You can't sell anything you don't own, so boss if some greedy chief who is not gazetted by the government sells u a piece of land that he has no authority to sell then the original owner can claim his land back. Common sense common law.
Anoba 9 years ago

There are many comment which have no baring on the truth! Whoever buy any portion of land from the wrong source, would forfeit it latter. The rightful owners will call on you, when the processes are restored. God help us! THE ...
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There are many comment which have no baring on the truth! Whoever buy any portion of land from the wrong source, would forfeit it latter. The rightful owners will call on you, when the processes are restored. God help us! THE PROPER CHIEF IS NO FOOL! There is a time for everything.
Willie 9 years ago

The people of Accra are also very lazy - parts of Osu are the same today as in 1970 - creaky, dirty not maintained. Aba!

The people of Accra are also very lazy - parts of Osu are the same today as in 1970 - creaky, dirty not maintained. Aba!
Watchman 9 years ago

Willie, your comment is a disgrace to whoever brought you into the world. I am a born and bred son of Osu. I am not lazy. My people are not lazy.

Willie, your comment is a disgrace to whoever brought you into the world. I am a born and bred son of Osu. I am not lazy. My people are not lazy.
Nii Nortey 9 years ago

Where is Derrick Adjei, Dr KB Asante and the Ga Dangme youth. Shame unto all of you

Where is Derrick Adjei, Dr KB Asante and the Ga Dangme youth. Shame unto all of you
Aj 9 years ago

Ataa Nii nortey, I'm glad you mension such names. Ga people refused to like the Ashantis but the have name like adjei,asante, addo, amponsah and if you tell them it the great Ashantis who stood with them in most of the wars a ...
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Ataa Nii nortey, I'm glad you mension such names. Ga people refused to like the Ashantis but the have name like adjei,asante, addo, amponsah and if you tell them it the great Ashantis who stood with them in most of the wars against the coastal tribes they would say no.I even gave them reference of when the fantis wage war against the Ga's in 1811 and the same Ashantis came to spell their blood to save them. you see what's befalling on them now .....the young once won't learn history but to attack the Ashantis for no reasons... Google to learn history....
P Djamgbe 9 years ago

It's about time this chieftaincy nonsense in Ghana stopped. Ghana is a well established democracy now, and we as a nation have come far enough to move away from this prehistoric nonsense of chieftaincy and its land ownership.

It's about time this chieftaincy nonsense in Ghana stopped. Ghana is a well established democracy now, and we as a nation have come far enough to move away from this prehistoric nonsense of chieftaincy and its land ownership.
Watchman 9 years ago

If Ghana has developed so much why is it that other areas protect their chieftaincy, lands and festivals and yet when it comes to Osu lands you are asking for a different outcome? I was born and bred at Osu. We are being push ...
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If Ghana has developed so much why is it that other areas protect their chieftaincy, lands and festivals and yet when it comes to Osu lands you are asking for a different outcome? I was born and bred at Osu. We are being pushed into the sea by people that are taking our hospitality for granted. We will fight for our land. Enough is enough.

P Djamgbe 9 years ago

Watchman, if I was referring to only Osu chiefs that would be disrespectful but I didn't mean any disrespect. When I said chieftaincy I meant all traditional rulers in every part of the country.

Watchman, if I was referring to only Osu chiefs that would be disrespectful but I didn't mean any disrespect. When I said chieftaincy I meant all traditional rulers in every part of the country.
ayertey eric 9 years ago

One thing i dont like after reading this is the fact that the chiefs would take the law into their hands. I must say that they are pursuing a good course but they should use the right channels.

One thing i dont like after reading this is the fact that the chiefs would take the law into their hands. I must say that they are pursuing a good course but they should use the right channels.
ayertey eric 9 years ago

Government must also learn to respect traditional authorities with respect to land ownership and stop hiding behind executive instrument and deny people from enjoying their land. Government dont even pay compensation to these ...
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Government must also learn to respect traditional authorities with respect to land ownership and stop hiding behind executive instrument and deny people from enjoying their land. Government dont even pay compensation to these authorities after acquiring their land why should this happen!!!!!
SON OF OSU 9 years ago

THE SO CALLED OSU CHIEFS ARE FAKE ELDERS. THE PROPER CHIEF IS OLD ROAD, NII NORTEY OWUO .THE MAN PRIEST CALLED NUMO BELENFO DOES NOT CONTROL THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.SHAME ON THEM!

THE SO CALLED OSU CHIEFS ARE FAKE ELDERS. THE PROPER CHIEF IS OLD ROAD, NII NORTEY OWUO .THE MAN PRIEST CALLED NUMO BELENFO DOES NOT CONTROL THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.SHAME ON THEM!
KKD 9 years ago

NPP thieves stole all public lands and houses in Cantonments, Ridge, Labone, before leaving office. And they want us to vote for them tweaaaah

NPP thieves stole all public lands and houses in Cantonments, Ridge, Labone, before leaving office. And they want us to vote for them tweaaaah
ibrahim thanko 9 years ago

it o nly ghana su h stupid tbings can go on.shamre chiefs

it o nly ghana su h stupid tbings can go on.shamre chiefs
Nii Ashong Noi-Tettey 9 years ago

This has been my fight all these years. Our people are waking up.
I call on all people of Osu origin and all friends of Osu to rise up and claim our lands back. Court or no court.

This has been my fight all these years. Our people are waking up.
I call on all people of Osu origin and all friends of Osu to rise up and claim our lands back. Court or no court.
Nii Ashong Noi-Tettey 9 years ago

I humbly appeal to Nii Kwabena Bonne IIII to make " claiming the lands of our fathers " the theme of this year's Homowo festival.
It is good to say not again to hunger, which threatened our ancestors and celebrate our cultur ...
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I humbly appeal to Nii Kwabena Bonne IIII to make " claiming the lands of our fathers " the theme of this year's Homowo festival.
It is good to say not again to hunger, which threatened our ancestors and celebrate our culture of sharing
Equally, We must turn our now focus on the threat of today , which is the loss of our living space ! So all component parts of Osu, that is Alata, Kinkawe, Ashinte, must come together with a This has been my fight all these years. Our people are waking up.
I call on all people of Osu origin and all friends of Osu to rise up and claim our lands back. Court or no court. and sacred goal of stopping the modern threat to our existence, which is the looming danger of facing deprivation of our living space.
Ben Bruce-Doe 9 years ago

Going into the issue of allodial ownership of land in Ghana would open up a terrible can of worms.

Already, the La Stool is at loggerheads with the Osu, over lands expropriated by ancient regimes and that brings up the nov ...
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Going into the issue of allodial ownership of land in Ghana would open up a terrible can of worms.

Already, the La Stool is at loggerheads with the Osu, over lands expropriated by ancient regimes and that brings up the novel notion of why the Akwamu and Akuapem may have a superior interest over vast Ga territories.

The supreme irony is that the Osu Alata forget their own history as slaves who were resettled on the lands they now occupy.

It is really fresh for people descended from that to then assert a claim to an inheritance which is not theirs.

They can trace their roots back to their tribal homelands and try to go bother the current governments there for land. Inutile cretins!!

www.archive.org/stream/historyofgoldcoa00rein/historyofgoldcoa00rein_djvu.txt

History of the Gold Coast and Asante.

The forts of the Dutch, English, and Danes at Akra, during those
days of dissension between the Akwamus and Akras, invited the
latter, to flee to the coast for protection from the oppression of the
Akwamus.

Of the Aseres and Aboras, who came down to the coast
to join the people living there before, the following names are still
in the memory of the people: Saku Olenge, Akotia Owosika, 0-
shamra, Ayikai, Siahene, Osu Kwatei, Anyama Seni, Amantiele
Akele &c. Ayikai Siahene with his people settled near James Fort
and founded Akangmadshe and Mereku i.e. Bereku quarter.

Adote Ni Ashare and Tete Kpeshi with their people removed from their
site beyond the lagoon Kole and settled by the fort, whose descen-
dants also composed the Sempe and Brohung quarter.

Dankera having been conquered in the year 1700 by the Asantes,
a quarrel about the succession to the royal stool broke out among
the royal princes of that state. A Dutch officer was consequently
sent there to restore peace.

He brought the following headmen and noble women to Dena (Elmina) to be protected : Afrifa, Korankyi, Amo Panyin, Amo Kuma, Kwaw Nsia, Korama, and Nsiawa, with several others. Some of them returned back to Dankera, when peace was restored.

Korama seems to have been a nearest relation of the royal family; she had a son named Otu, who in consequence of the recent conquest was surnamed "Ahiakwa", one who met with or got nothing i.e. born when their glory had departed.

He, being an intelligent youth, was employed as a servant by the above men-tioned officer who was shortly after appointed commandant of the Dutch Fort Crevecoeur and brought down both Otu and his people already named to Akra.

The Priest of Nai being then the chief on the coast, to whom a monthly stipend was paid by the Dutch Government, the Dankera headmen and women were consigned to his care. After some years' residence, a piece of land was obtained from the priest through the influence of the commandant, on which Otu and his people built houses.

Being free and intelligent trading people, they acquired riches in a short time, and enlarged their quarter very rapidly with the refugees from Dankera, Akwamu, Akem and Akuapem.

Bobiko, a relative of Korama, then at Akem, heard of the prosperity of the Dankeras, and sent her son Amo Nakawa to Akra to ascertain the truth of it. Satisfied with the condition of his relatives, Bobiko and her people were by their advice induced to join them at Akra. But an incident took place while Amo Nakawa was on the coast.

His wife Ahwanjabea of Akwamu went on a visit to her parents at the place, where the king tried in vain to seduce her, and Akonug, being defeated in his object, in revenge applied a burning tobacco pipe to the back of her innocent child Dako. The child was brought down to Akra with the whole family of Amo Nakawa, when the sad case was told him by his wife.

He (hereupon made a solemn vow of revenging himself one day on the king of Akwamu for that cruelty to his wife and child. Hence afterwards Amo Nakawa became the zealous chief among the ambassadors of Akra when negotiating with the kings of Akem, whose relation he was. He prevailed on the Obutus and Agonas to throw off their allegiance to the king of Akwamu while the latter was threatened with war.

All the Europeans established on the coast had their own labourers ;
some were free people, and the rest their own slaves as the pro-
perty of each company, who were designated Alatas, a Fante name
for i»eople of Lagos, Yoruba etc.

Thus we have Kinka or Dutch Alata, English Alata, and Osu or Danish Alata. These Alatas in each town formed their own quarter in connection with the towns' people, and were acknowledged as citizens of the place by joining the established band in the towns. The elders among them had the right as citizens to become grandees or counsellors of the king or chief in a town.

Thus the headman of the English Alatas was one Osho or Odshoe (not Kodsho), surnamed Wets he, i.e. housefather, who being a very intelligent and powerful man by his connection with the English, grew very rich, had numerous slaves himself, besides the Alatas, and having been in the country since the English established themselves here in 1672, became the king of James Town.

He had been instructed in the Tshi style of managing a state, and had a stool also made and consecrated to him by Chief Oto Brafo of Kinka (Dutch Akra). There appears no one to have been appointed then as the successor of chief Anege ; even if there was one, he was more the priest of Oyeni, than a king. Odshg's successor Kofi Akrashi, a native of Dutch Akra, easily raised the power and fame of that family very gloriously.

It was the same with a Fante chief, named Kwabena Bonne, who was brought to Osu (Christiansborg) with a large family by the Danes. He, although a free government agent, had to build his house close to the Castle in the Alata quarter. Chief Ahene of Dena (Elmina) also emigrated with a large family to Akra, and made his permanent stay with the Dutch Alatas in the Dutch Town.

The people of Osudua or Christiansborg also emigrated in company with the different Adangme tribes from Same in the East, and having crossed the Volta, they settled M'ith the main body on the Osudoku hill.

Before their emigration to this place there was a single family of one Tete Manydi and his brother Tete Bo and his sister Dede Mosa from Dutch Akra settled here, before the Portuguese arrived.

The family fetishes of Tete Manyoi are Leniogbe, i.e. a fetish of the Les, and Nyankumle, which claims pre-eminence of Osu. The former is a piece of a round white stone, now lying neglected at the west corner of the Basel Mission Chapel.

An incident is said to have taken place at Osudoku, after the
time when the Danes had come to this coast, which caused a
certain family to emigrate to Osuyokpo near Shai, thence to Osu-
ko near Kwabenyang, who were seeking the protection either of
the Akras or the Danes.

Tradition differs as to the real cause of that fiimily's emigration.
Some people say, that the Les or Agotims, who were driven from
Poni and Lahe, did not cross the Volta at once, but settled near
the bank of the river.

Being a warlike tribe, they kept up fighting with the Osudokus, that one chief, named Noete, came with the view of asking the aid of king Oka! Koi to fight his enemy.

The king sent an ambassador, Tete Boako Aforo by name, who escorted the chief to the Danes. Noete, having obtained protection, sent for his brother Naku Tete and their people, and founded the seven huts known as Butaiateng in Christiansborg.

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