In the matter of interest; a portion of Eden and our lack of forsight

Interesting isn't it if a single tree can create a million matches and a single match could destroy a vast acre of forest? What a metaphorical world full of illogics and inequalities? Interesting very interesting! who won't give a damn to visit a portion of Eden to see the home of our first parents so a portion of Eden is still worth a sightseeing? The good land as i may refer to it the curse of man's toils, the feuding and fueling of disputes, massacred of thousands in the name of a portion of Eden has laced our history with blood stained footprints from America to Brazil from Germany to Japan; Britain to india, Israel to Palestine, South Africa to Zimbabwe. A portion of the good land dispute has grace their history. From Sudan to Mauritania to Ghana, land disputes reign supreme; a time bomb waiting patiently for the last straw to break and the tiny fuse burnt. Good neighbourliness has gone to the wire and sacred forests has been desecrated by even the very custodians of the traditions in this era of modernity. We may not be experts of surveying, demarcating and partitioning but when two brothers feud over a portion of the good land, sides may be taken and neutral grounds demarcated. The disputed land between the people of Alavanyo and Nkonya i have heard if i could remember once when i was young. It wasn't the precise truth your parents will tell you then either all you could comprehend were warning do not go to the farm alone because the people of Alavanyo are feuding with Nkonya. But then common sense won't tell you how would that impart on your going to the farm because you weren't told the location of Alavanyo nor Nkonya. As a grown up and having gone through a bit of history of the SASADU my understanding of the people of Alavanyo has been opened up in that they are one of the last immigrant groups that left Saviefe in pursuit of the good land and it may be probable they play host to Nkonya or they met them there and has been good neighbours ever since till the old days traditions of homage has gone to the wire as has been happening of late. Lets me twist the intestate succession law or PNDC Law 111 or so a bit in this tale. It states the modus of succession to property of decreases and as a common knowledge should someones linage extents his property if unclaimed for some number of years is confiscated to state property. This assumption isn't the analogy of the recent land dispute but to draw your mind to how the portion of land under dispute could be step in by the government and declared state property, a neutral ground and sacred forest with severe prosecution to those who trespass. This too may not last for ever as we all forget our histories and future generations and cronies of government could conspire to sell that portion of land to developers. Aside this Togbe Afede has been mediating in the dispute so what are the brothers of Alavanyo (SASADU) and Nkonya been doing? A proper surveying and demarcation could be carried out by the two sides to rest this case but that too is bound to be infringed on in the future if the history of the land pact isn't handed down from generation to generation. All in all its important that clan heads pass down their histories to the younger ones annually. Their properties, their land acquisitions should be properly documented and registered with the lands commission to forestall future distortion of oral traditions which will lead to human errors. In this way the consequences of internal displacement of people due to land conflict could be averted. I rest my case.

The recent peace accord is a good news but the citizens of both towns must be made to understand the terms of the agreement.

Common sense requires no common degree.