Nene Sakite II, Konor of Manya Krobo
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Friday December 3, 2010
THE DECISION by the Electoral Commission (EC) to re-demarcate the electoral boundary between the Eastern and Greater Accra regions to make Akuse, a major town in Eastern region part of Greater Accra is causing an uneasy calm in the area.
The NDC Member of Parliament (MP) for Lower Manya, chiefs and people of Manya Krobo of which Akuse forms an integral part, have vowed to use all legitimate means to stop government and the EC from going ahead to transfer the town to Greater Accra.
Michael Teye Nyaunu said at a charged news conference in Accra Tuesday that “Krobos are getting disturbed about the Akuse issue. It only comes up whenever the NDC is in power. We have been loyal to this party all these years but we now know that there are faceless people in the NDC who are behind this diabolic agenda.”
“In all the eight years of the Kufuor administration, we did not hear about the Akuse issue but in less than two years of the NDC in office, this issue is coming up again but I am assuring all Ghanaians that we are going to fight it legitimately.”
The MP said even though he is always in Parliament, the parliamentary committee on Subsidiary and Legislation which sat to take the decision never approached or invited him to state his case on behalf of people of Lower Manya and said neither the chiefs nor the people were consulted over the issue.
Clad in red armbands and chanting war songs, the people led by their Paramount Chief, Nene Sakite II, Konor of Manya Krobo stormed the Ghana International Press Center in two buses to show their displeasure at the EC’s decision to cede the Akuse electoral area to Dangme west district.
Nene Sakite who was visibly unhappy with the move first read the press statement before Mr. Nyaunu answered questions on behalf of the chiefs and people.
He said the Supreme Court determined the status of Akuse in its latest judgement in July 2008 but there is conspiracy among high ranking personalities to sidestep the judgment and go ahead to cede Akuse to Greater Accra region.
He said when the first NDC government set up a fact finding committee led by the late Nathan Quao to look into the status of Akuse, it came out in 1995 that Akuse belonged to Manya Krobo district and the Supreme Court affirmed it saying “the people vigorously pursuing the cessation of Akuse from Eastern Region to Greater Accra are people who either know little about Akuse or are deliberately attempting to distort historical facts."
“There are individuals in Ghana who seek positions of responsibility and then in gross disregard for law and justice, throw dust into the eyes of the nation only to achieve their selfish desires by paying heavy sums of money to influence people to alter documents or create fake ones behind the back of the law and whatever powers that be are silent, as far as we in Manya Krobo are concerned.”
Nene Sakite said the latest development is “forcing them into extreme provocation” adding “the people of Manya Krobo will enforce and defend Supreme Court judgments of the past as well as latest judgments on the issue.”
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