Should chiefs colluding with criminal-types to win sand illegally be prosecuted and jailed?

Incredibly, included in the list of individuals, and groups, busy stabbing our hardworking and very focused, elected leader, President Akufo-Addo, in the back, the most, are (according to bush-telegraph sources), some of Akyem Abuakwa's Chiefs, who are alleged to be involved in what is one of modern sub-Saharan Africa's worst land-grab, attempts, ever. Amazing.

It is vital, and, in the overall national interest, that their vile, nation-wrecking on-the-ground-tactics, in pursuance of their abominable land-grabbing-strategy, are halted, by decisive action, from the law enforcement agencies. Immediately. Now. Not tomorrow.

What is happening across the Ayensuano parliamentary constituency, where illegal sand winners operate with total impunity, for example, is intolerable. It is one of the factors, which made the ruling New Patriotic Party's (NPP) parliamentary candidate, lose there, in the closely-fought December 2020 elections.

If the authorities fail to stop them, their heinous crimes will eventually affect the Eastern Region's ability to attract serious and reputable impact-investors - which is bound to affect the region's long-term prospects, negatively.

As most discerning Ghanaians are aware, since he assumed office, in January 2017, President Akufo-Addo has outlined, and, is implementing, a number of brilliant policies, which will transform Ghana's agricultural sector, into a private-sector-led wealth-generating, and job-creating, economic pillar, by the end of his second term in office.

Our nation needs peace, and unity, to develop and prosper. That is why any Chief, who colludes with criminal-types (who employ armed landguards), to unlawfully occupy, and thereby forcibly take over, countless smallholder-farmlands, in parts of the Eastern Region, to win sand illegally, should be prosecuted. Enough is enough. Haaba.