The Osu State in Accra has laid claim to the Achimota forest and insisted the Owoo Family cannot claim ownership of the woodland.
Secretary to the Osu Stool, Nii Otinkorang Ankrah, during an interview on Starr FM indicated they already have a judgement in their favour against the Lands Commission in respect of the Achimota Forest.
According to him, lands in Accra are owned by either the State, the clan or a family.
He said, “So if you have land in Accra you want to buy it from a family or a clan.”
“If the Owoo family says the land is for them, it means they bought it from the Osu State or a member who is from Osu and this is not the case. You cannot have a land in the bosom of the Osu State.”
“There was an appeal in 2014 on the same case with the Land Commission and we won the case again pending the implementation of judgment only for us to wake up one morning and you tell us the land belongs to the Owoo family. It’s never possible,” the Secretary disclosed.
“We are also with the Minister discussing the same issue on the land. We will not go back to court directly, we will go to the Minister and let him know or otherwise on the issue on a negotiation table. If that does not happen then we will go back to court,” he added.
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