News:
November 24, 2015
Old students of Achimota Senior High School, known as Akoras, have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament over encroachment on the school’s lands.
Class FM’s parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan reports that the petitioners are calling for a moratorium to be placed on all land sales and illegal construction activities on all Achimota school lands. This was contained in a request submitted to parliament on Tuesday November 24.
The old students are also demanding an investigation into the sale and encroachment activities of the said lands.
They are also appealing for the prosecution of all persons and entities engaged in illegal sale and acquisition of the school’s lands.
The spokesperson for the group, Ernest Afram, stated that the encroachment is negatively affecting school activities and endangering lives of students and teachers.
“We are calling on government to help us protect the lands of the school. Achimota school lands were purchased in 1927 and reserved for education. As we speak, we have people, who have encroached on the school farm, the school septic system, the primary school. Certain teachers cannot even enter their bungalows. Someone even walled [the] front of a teacher’s bungalow and students had to go and break the wall,” he complained.
Mr Afram said copies of the petition have been presented to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Chief Justice, Attorney General, the Lands Commission, and the Member of Parliament for the area.