An Aide to the Paramount Chief of Osu has revealed that an interested party in the parcel of land that the Nigerian High Commission in Accra has been developing masterminded last week’s demolition that threatened a diplomatic row between Ghana and Nigeria.
Nii Odoi Kwao told Ghanaweb on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, that the interested party – whose identity he refused to unravel – had previously acquired the parcel of land from the Osu Stool.
He said this was one of the revelations that came out after a crunch meeting held by the Paramount Chief, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI and Stool Elders of Osu on Monday, June 22, 2020.
“At the meeting, we found out that the demolition was masterminded by an interested party in the property…it is until recently that we found out that the one whom the Stool had negotiated with could not get access to the land,” the Special Aide to the Osu Paramount Chief told GhanaWeb.
He added: “The property on which the original Nigerian High Commission was on was not sufficient for them…so they wanted more space…So I think what they [Nigerian High Commission] did was that they consulted the Lands Commission and got approval to put up some structures there without the knowledge of the Osu Stool.”
He said it also emerged during the meeting of the Chief and Elders of the Stool that these transactions with the unnamed interested party had been conducted many years ago, “and the person has been given [documents] already.”
Chiefs in Ghana act as custodians of the lands and are mandated by the law and locally prevailing customs and traditions to make decisions on behalf of their subjects.
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
