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Ghana's Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Must End The Impunity Of Akyem Juaso's Criminal Syndicates

Feature Article Ghana's Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Must End The Impunity Of Akyem Juaso's Criminal Syndicates
MAY 13, 2022 LISTEN

It is an open secret in Akyem Juaso, a fringe-forest cocoa farming community, in Ghana's Eastern Region, that some members of the P. E. Thompson family, its biggest landowners, are actively collaborating with the criminal syndicates engaged in the production of bushcut chainsaw lumber, and galamsayers, in parts of our freehold 14-square mile upland evergreen rainforest property, off the arboreal slopes bordering the Atewa Forest Reserve (and in the 99.6 acres land we own inside the Atewa Forest Reserve, known in Forestry Commission jargon, as an admitted farm).

The question is: When will the dynamic Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Abu Jinapor, finally act to end the impunity fueling the egregious ecocidal-crimes, of the aforementioned. P. E. Thompson family members, Ghanafuo? Hmmmm, ey3nsem, piiiiii, oooo...

At a time when global climate change is impacting rural Ghana so negatively, is it not vital that the impunity enjoyed by the ruthless and murderous criminal syndicates benefitting from illegal logging and galamsay, even as we speak, at Akyem Juaso, ends, and that those greedy rogues are arrested, prosecuted and jailed - to deter other such criminals across the territorial landmass of Ghana: especially at a time when those responsible for the safety of our Republic, ought to be making food security, a top national security strategic-priority, anaaaa, Ghanafuo? Enough is enough, oooo. The time has now come for the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources to act to end such egregious-impunity. Now. Not tomorrow. Yoooooo...

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