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STOP ATTACKS AND THE KILLING OF FORESTRY PERSONNEL

The Center for the Management of Impact of Climate Change (CeMICC), an environmental Non-Governmental Organization has observed with great concern and outrage, a seemingly disastrous development which if not stopped would lead to a situation where Ghana’s already fast depleting forest reserves will totally disappear as a result of the activities of chain saw operators, illegal surface miners, illegal farmers in the forest and other criminals.


These miscreants have resorted to killing forest guards and rangers who have been legally employed by the Government of Ghana in their bid to plunder the little remaining forest.

They have been physically attacking and killing forest guards in cold blood in their quest to extract precious resourced from nature.

The Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission has a core function to protect, manage and develop forest resources in the national interest and for the benefit of owners.

In pursuance of this, the Division has a duty to take necessary steps to prevent the commission of an offence under the Forest Protection Act 1974, National Redemption Council Decree (NRCD) 243.

Under this same Act, Forest Guards and Rangers are permitted to arrest persons who are reasonably suspected to have committed or are concerned in as act under the Act.

Offences under the Act include

             • Felling, uprooting, tapping or damaging a tree or timber in the forest reserve without permission of the competent forest authority

             • Making or cultivating a farm or erecting a building in a forest reserve without written authority

             • Causing damage by negligence in felling a tree or cutting or removing timber in the forest without written authority

             • Setting fire to grass or herbage or kindling of fire without taking due precaution, etc.

In summary, the offences can be described ordinarily as illegal chainsawing, encroachment or illegal mining also known as galamsey.

A survey conducted by CeMICC in the first quarter of 2013, has revealed that not less than five barbaric attacks had been waged on forest guards and rangers in the Ashanti region alone as nationwide attacks are being tabulated.

The situation had become more dangerous with the entry of illegal mining business by foreigners, especially Chinese, who backed by Ghanaian partners wiled deadly weapons.

These weapons included assault rifles, machete and clubs which indicated that they were ever ready to kill anyone who tried to stop them from plundering forest reserves.

In January 2013, a range supervisor and two forest guards were brutally assaulted when they attempted to arrest illegal chainsaw operators, who were destroying the forest without authorization at Nkranpo near Sekyereduamsi in the Mampong Forest District.

Also in the same month, some forestry officials were brutally beaten when they attempted to drive out illegal farmers from the Anumso Forest Reserve.

These illegal farmers have erected cottages in the forest reserve without authorization. In an attempt to ward them off, the forest guards were pounced upon and brutally assaulted with machetes. One guard nearly had his hand severed off.

In February 2013, a combined team of military and forestry guards were nearly lynched by a mob at Koniyaw in the Bosomtwi Forest Reserve in Bekwai. The team had gone there to stop the operations of a gang who were massively engaged in illegal surface mining activities.

The gang mounted a road block, captured the forest petrol team and gave them the thrashing of their lives with clubs and machetes. They were only rescued when a police reinforcement team was called in. Injuries sustained by the two soldiers were too severe that they had to be hospitalized for months at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.

In March 2013, a Range Supervisor, Kwame Owusu and two Forest Guards were captured by an armed gang at the Tinte Bepo Forest Reserve, near Abesewa where they had gone to check about illegal chainsaw operations in the reserve.

They were overpowered by a gang armed with machetes and shot guns and subjected to severe beatings by the gang and made to load vehicles of the gang which they had looted.

Perharps, the most disastrous of the deadly assaults so far in the Ashanti Region is the killing of one e Kwaswo Wireko, a Forest Guard in the Offinso District was shot and killed whilst on duty in the Afram Headwaters Forest Reserve near Abofour.

He had gone there on usual patrolling duties and the poor man never returned home. He is believed to have been shot and killed at close range.

There are many more of such incidents in the country. Many happen unheard of whilst others are taken for granted, and loosely considered to be occupational hazards.

The question is who gets employed and lowered into the lion’s den to be devoured? Who seeks employment knowing that he is going to be sent, unarmed, to face armed gangs?

The values of forest are far too much to be enumerated here. Forests provide clothing, food, and shelter in ways several books will have to contain.

They act as carbon sinks by way of absorbing excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Forests provide medicine for humanity and provide habitats to animals. They protect water bodies and generally add aesthetic values to life and Ghana derived tremendous revenue from wood exports whilst creating employment for millions of people.

In recognition of this, Government through the Forestry Commission established forest guards to protect the valuable natural resourced so that Ghanaians will continue to enjoy life naturally.

Why then should we allow people to kill these innocent guards who are simply protecting our common heritage?

There are over 220 forest reserves in Ghana and these attacks only happened in five reserves. What would be the situation should it be allowed to continue in other reserves? Your guess is as good as mine.

There is therefore the need for Government as a matter of urgency, arm forest guard and rangers to give them some level of security in the discharge of their duties

Policemen and the military are feared basically because they carry firearms and can shoot to kill if attacked.

The guards should also be made to patrol in groups of five or six at all times to avoid a scenario where one guard could easily be ambushed and killed.

Forestry guards, from the nature of their work and the harm they are exposed to, need military training to equip them well to conform some of these dangers.

Also, in cases where guards have lost their lives in the course of discharging their duties, their families and other dependents must be taken care of by government, especially those who have children in school.

Ghana’s forest resources are already degrading fast and therefore those who have out their lives at stake to halt this unhealthy trend must be protected.

LUFTHANSA AWARDS TRAVEL AND TOUR AGENTS

LUFTHANSA, a German Airline in operating in the country, has awarded its travel agents for their contribution to the company in 2012.


The awards were categorised into two ; the top ten awards for travel agents and six other awards for agents who had contributed to the success of the company in the year under review.

Travel agents who won under the top ten category received a plaque and a citation.

They are Euro Tour Ghana Limited, Journeymax Travel, Satguru Travel and Tours, Travel Zone Limited, Venture-G Travel and Yoshiken Travel and Tours.

Sunlife Travel Tours Limited won the award for Top Agent for 2012 with Stellar Travel and Doscar Travel and Tours Limited being adjudged the first and second runners up respectively.

The six special awards were received by Expert Travel, Travel Matters Limited and Graceland Travel and Tours Limited, Land Tours Ghana Limited for best premium sales growth, Litina Travel and Tours Limited for best overall growth and Travel Bureau Limited for Best growth in North America.

Other winners, who were awarded for outstanding support to Lufthansa, were Euro Tour Ghana Limited, Journeymax Travel, Satguru Travel and Tours, Travel Zone Limited, Venture-G Travel and Yoshiken Travel and Tours.

The Managing Director of Lufthansa Ghana, Mr Kevin Markette, said at the awards ceremony in Accra that the although the Lufthansa Group experienced some challenges in 2012, its Ghanaian market performed well, recording higher revenues in spite of reduced capacity.

“The year was, therefore, successful due to the support of and hard work of our agents who put in extra efforts to bring passengers onboard the airline,” he said.

Mr Markette pledged the airline’s continued commitment to the Ghanaian market, adding that it would continue to be innovative and deliver on its brand promise of value for money, individual caring, quality promise and leadership.

The Executive Director of Sunlife Travel Tours Limited, Mr Mike Banful, thanked Lufthansa on behalf of the agents and pledged their commitment to continue partnering with the airline to boost its sales.

GHANA URBAN MALARIA STUDY REPORT LAUNCHED

A January 2013 research report on Ghana Urban Malaria study has revealed that data on malaria testing that were routinely reported to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) were often incomplete and internally inconsistent.


This was due to the fact that some policy makers, public health programmers, and clinicians in spite of well documented variation in the incidence of malaria, reported roughly only 40 per cent of pediatric outpatients diagnosed with malaria throughout the year.

“Thus, malaria data routinely reported by health facilities in Ghana do not provide a reliable indication of the burden of malaria,” the report said.

The report further stated that the burden of malaria was lower in the large cities of the country largely because of the environmental changes.

Also, the intensity of malaria transmission was lower in neighborhoods of Accra and Kumasi than in surrounding rural areas adding that transmission was especially low in urban neighborhoods that were distant from urban agricultural plots.

Additionally, the prevalence of malaria infection was higher for children living in the poorest urban households compared to those living in the wealthiest households.

This, the report said , may be due to less frequent use of protective measures such as household screening, insecticides, insecticide treated nets and anti-malarial drugs.

The report, however, added that it was surprising that the proportions of children benefiting from appropriate malaria control practices were no higher in the cities than in rural areas in the country.

Also, laboratory confirmation of suspected malaria was least common in Accra where the prevalence of malaria was the lowest and presumptive diagnosis of fever was least reliable.

Speaking at the stakeholders debriefing meeting on malaria programme review and urban malaria study dissemination report in Accra, the Minister of Health, Madam Sherry Ayittey said malaria was till a troublesome disease in the country responsible for the death of many people in the country.

“It accounts for over 30 per cent of all out patients attendances in our health facilities and also the leading cause of under five –mortality in the country,” she said.

She said the country had made great strides in the fight against malaria that involved multi and inter-sectorial partnerships working together on agrees plan to reduce death and illness due to malaria by 75 percent by 2015.

She expressed optimism that the meeting would provide an opportunity for all stakeholders in the health sector to share findings and recommendations on the study which would intend control intervention efforts.

She said government was committed to the fight against malaria and the needed resources would be made available through the district assemblies’ common fund, tax exemptions of malaria commodities and drugs as well as direct provision of drugs and logistics.

REGISTRAR TAKES GOVERNMNET TO COURT

The Registrar of the Knutsford University College, Dr Nana Oppong, has filed a suit at the Supreme Court seeking a declaration to compel the government to take effective, immediate and continuing action to prevent foreigners from taking over the lands of the country.


The plaintiff also seeks to enjoin the government to ensure that most of the lands of Ghana remain permanently under the control and management of indigenous Ghanaians for posterity.

Another relief being sought by the plaintiff is an order compelling the government to pass the necessary legislation and create and fund the necessary institutions for them to fulfill their duties.

The suit, which was filed at the Supreme Court on April 9, 2013, is also seeking a declaration that the government has breached its duty to prevent “foreign takeover of lands of Ghana”.

Explaining the details of the suit at a press conference in Accra yesterday, Dr Oppong, who is also a land lawyer, said over the past five years a great number of lands had been transferred from Ghanaians to persons of foreign origin.

He said the lands involved in such transactions usually happened to be some of the best lands for agricultural or housing purposes, adding that the quantities of land typically transferred measured in the 10s, 100s and sometimes even 1,000s of hectares.

Dr Oppong said he had witnessed the sale of 10,000 acres (in one case) in the Brong Ahafo Region; 5,000 acres (another case) in the Central Region and 20,000 acres in the Volta Region.

He said currently foreigners on short-term visits and even tourists could, within a few days of their arrival, own any land in the country with a long-term lease.

“Thus, at this rate of land transfers to persons of foreign origin, it was only a matter of time before very large, if not most, portions of the country fall outside the control and management of indigenous of Ghanaians,” he said

Additionally, he said, with the logic of demand and supply, there was a real possibility that foreigners with money could possess and take over most of the lands in the country, since there was currently no limit to how foreigners could come into the country and buy lands.

Dr Oppong said at the moment the only check on the transfer of lands to persons of foreign origin was a limitation of 50 years at a time.

“Article 266 (4) of the Constitution states, ‘No interest in, or right over, any land in Ghana shall be created which vests in a person who is not a citizen of Ghana a leasehold for a term of more than 50 years at any one time’,” he added.

However, the 50-year limitation only applied to maximum term per lease and did not allow renewals of the same lease for another 50 years.

“It appears the Government of Ghana is not sufficiently prepared to deal with the challenges that such rapid and massive exposure to foreigners pose to Ghana’s national welfare,” he said.

Dr Oppong explained further that the probability that heirs of a lessor under a long-term lease would repossess the lands at the end of a lease would depend on many things, including the existence and accuracy of inter-generational memory or excellent record keeping about the transaction.

“Furthermore, while lawyers, the Constitution and other sophisticated persons may be able to distinguish between long-term lease and a sale, the majority of Ghanaians, especially the illiterate and people of rural persuasion, view the transfer of land by indenture to another for a lump sum as sale.

“If the arrangement for the transfer is not abunu or abusa, a short-term rental or similar things, our culture and ordinary expectations are that the signing of documents and giving lands to strangers for a lump sum is a sale.

“The point is that leaving the control and management of land transactions in Ghana to largely illiterate and poor individual Ghanaians to deal with sophisticated and rich foreign buyers is not a very good recipe for the protection of the independence, integrity, security and welfare of Ghana. This is the crux of the matter,” Dr Oppong said.

ABANTU SUSTAINS INTEREST OF WOMEN IN POLITICS

RWANDA has spearheaded affirmative action leading to an increase in the number in women’s representation in that country’s parliament, with 56.25 per cent of members of the legislature being women.

World regional average representation of  women in parliament, released by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, dated February 1, 2013 placed Senegal 6th with 42.5 per cent female representation in parliament, South Africa 8th, with 42.3 per cent of women in the legislature, calculated on the basis of 54 permanent seats, excluding 36 special rotation delegates appointed on an ad hoc basis. Mozambique has 39.2 pe cent of women, Uganda has 35.0 per cent female representation in parliament and Angola, 34.1 per cent.

More efforts are being made to increase women’s representation in decision-making and gender quotas have increasingly been used as a tool for increasing gender equity in political representation.

During the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, Ghana did not file any female presidential candidate as efforts by the former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and Madam Akua Donkor to contest the elections on the tickets of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and the United Freedom Party (UFP) respectively, did not materialise as a result of their inability to meet the deadline for the filing of nominations at the Electoral Commission

For the parliamentary elections, 133 women out of the total of 1,332 parliamentary candidates contested the elections, as against 103 women who contested the elections in 2008. Out of the 133 candidates, 30 emerged victorious.

To help sustain the interest of female parliamentary candidates who contested in the 2012 elections but lost in their bid to go to parliament, ABANTU for Development, a non-governmental organisation, on Tuesday organised a consultation workshop for 30 non-elected women parliamentary candidates to strengthen their capacities for future elections.

The workshop was also to create an environment where participants could share their experiences and deliberate on lessons learnt from the elections and also utilise  the platform to enhance ongoing discussions  on how women’s increased representation and effective participation in politics and decision making in the country could be enhanced.

Also, the workshop was intended to develop an action plan on continuous advocacy on women’s representation and effective participation in elections and governance process in general.

Speaking on the topic, “ Women’s Candidature in Election 2012: Perspectives from the Electoral Commission of Ghana”, a Commissioner of the Electoral Commission Mrs Pauline Adobea Dadzawa said as the country continued on its path as a leader in democratic reforms in Africa, it was important that its achievements were reinforced by the progress in women’s political participation.

“Ghana has earned the title of one of Africa’s most hopeful democracy by making continuos progress in closing the gender gap in governance and ensuring that women participate in decision making at all levels,” she said.

She said as part of strategies for strengthening women’s participation in politics, the African Union should continue its cooperation with regional structures to strengthen electoral process.

Also, regional and national organisations should conduct an audit of performance against targets set by member countries adding that many African countries need to embark on deliberate electoral reform to ensure the advancement of women’s representation in governance.

She said amendments to existing constitutions should guarantee gender equality, as happened in South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia.

“Lobby groups should also advocate a 50-50 campaign in favour of ‘One man and one woman’ regardless of the electoral system adopted,” she added.

Mrs Dadzawa, however, recommended that government should actively promote and encourage candidacy of women candidate through the use of quotas that could be re-enforced through appropriate systems, adequate electoral systems and legal measures to emphasise women’s right.

She said the national constitution and other national legal frameworks, specifically family law, must guarantee women’s equal rights.

She also urged various political parties to promote the candidature of both men and women in elections, publish party lists with male and female candidates, and comply worth parity quotas regardless of whether or not they are voluntary.

The Resource Mobilisation and Sustainability Manager of ABANTU for Development, Mrs Hamida Harrison in her address reaffirmed the organisations commitment to strengthen the capacity of women who have demonstrated an interest in national leadership and public office.

“It is interrelated in our long-term development objective of mobilising, harnessing and sustaining the national will, especially of the women, exchange of knowledge and skills and mutual sharing of experiences and information to enable us stand up and demand for non-discriminatory and fair action that will recognise the rights of all,” she said.

She lauded the efforts of the women for exhibiting commitment, confidence and faith, adding that “By your candidature, you have reinforced the demands that women must be entitled to equal distribution of public, private responsibilities and that more equitable presence of men and women in political process is fundamental in redressing gender inequalities and imbalances”.

Mrs Harrison urged women to work collaboratively to ensure better response to their efforts, needs and concerns adding that they must work for enabling environments, tools and frameworks that will allow for a truly transformational social value system.

This, systems, she said must include the recognition and the creation of a gender playing field of equality of political rights and to allow not only the right to elect but also be elected.