{"id":22078,"date":"2022-05-19T06:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22078"},"modified":"2022-05-19T06:36:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:36:55","slug":"achimota-forest-saga-owoo-family-was-compensated-with-4000-in-1951-inusah-fuseini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/19\/achimota-forest-saga-owoo-family-was-compensated-with-4000-in-1951-inusah-fuseini\/","title":{"rendered":"Achimota forest saga: Owoo family was compensated with \u00a34000 in 1951 \u2013 Inusah Fuseini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Lands Minister, Inusah Fuseini says the Owoo family, the allodial owners of the land that serves as the Achimota Forest Reserve was duly compensated, by the British colonial government, for the land.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201ccompensation was paid, \u00a34000 pounds then in 1951, 1957\u2026I am aware that the colonial government paid four thousand pounds for the land and that was a huge amount of money in 1951.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources under the erstwhile John Mahama Administration made this revelation on Joy FM\u2019s Top Story<\/strong>, Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Besides, Mr. Fuseini recalled that during his regime as a Lands Minister in 2013, a ceremony was held in the forest to release about ninety to hundred acres of the land to the Owoo family.<\/p>\n

\u201cA study was done and then we all agreed, including the Owoo family that, that was what they were entitled to. There was a ceremony to release that part to them that took place in the forest itself. I was there, the Wulomei was there, the Owoo family was there, and my deputy and everybody were there\u2026about ninety to hundred acres thereabouts was released to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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This, he said was to prevent any further encroachment on the forest and to enable the forest to be put to good use.<\/p>\n

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Against this backdrop, Mr. Fuseini contended that the Owoo family is not entitled to any further compensation from the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the greatest respect to the Owoo family, they have always maintained that they are not entitled to a dime. That\u2019s why in my letter, I only maintained that it was only on compassionate grounds with the realisation and acknowledgment of the fact that they were the allodial owners of the land,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

He noted that the Owoo family to the best of his knowledge \u201chave never claimed compensation of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He maintained that \u201cWhat they have always said is because that vast amount of land was taken from them, it deprived them the benefit of the use of the land and now they are almost robbed of their resource and so government should reach out to them and see how it can put them in a better position to continue to carry on as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Former Lands Minister also disagreed with the government\u2019s declassification of the Achimota Forest reserves.<\/p>\n

He questioned whether such a move by the government will prevent any further encroachment of the forest lands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ultimate purpose for the return of the land to the Owoo family on compassionate grounds under His Excellency John Mahama was to try to protect what was left of the forest. So if you don\u2019t protect the forest and you just declassify the forest, what is the guarantee that there won\u2019t be further encroachment,\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Lands Minister, Inusah Fuseini says the Owoo family, the allodial owners of the land that serves as the Achimota Forest Reserve was duly compensated, by the British colonial government, for the land. According to him, \u201ccompensation was paid, \u00a34000 pounds then in 1951, 1957\u2026I am aware that the colonial government paid four thousand pounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13170,6595,6771,5268,5455,2264,6636,6638,8029,130,7252,5612,6637,9036,6431,7540,3954],"class_list":["post-22078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-achimota","tag-achimota-forest","tag-achimota-forest-reserve","tag-british","tag-family","tag-government","tag-inusah-fuseini","tag-john-mahama","tag-land","tag-mahama","tag-minister-for-lands-and-natural-resources","tag-money","tag-owoo-family","tag-pounds","tag-release","tag-reserves","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}