Sam George swims into Achimota Forest adventure

Ningo Prampram MP
Individual from Parliament for Ningo Prampram voting demographic, Sam George has believed that the obtaining of ecological resources, by confidential people is 'criminal' and 'unforgivable".
Refering to the instance of the Achimota Forest in a Facebook post on Monday, the NDC administrator, showed that there is the requirement for the country to safeguard its natural hold, rather than leaving it for private hands.
 "We really want to take the issues of our environmental economy genuinely. Any endeavor to put an ecological resource like the Achimota backwoods in the possession of private people regardless of political association is criminal and indefensible", the post uncovered.
Sam George's remarks come directly following the furious adventure about the Achimota Forest Reserves.
Following a supposed spilled archive, which circulated around the web via web-based entertainment last week, scores of irate Ghanaians communicated their second thoughts about the indicated choice of government to declassify the Achimota Forest Reserve.
Yet, responding to the far and wide theories, the area Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor, at a question and answer session on May 17, excused the claims; expressing that, the Forest has not been sold. Adding that, administration has no goals of doing as such.
As per him, the public authority "plans to advance the Achimota woods, redo it and ideally not long from now, change it into any semblance of High Park of London and Central Park of New York, where Ghanaians can proceed to partake in the magnificence of nature and timberland hold as it occurs in different regions of the planet".
In the interim, a report by the Fourth Estate's Manasseh Azure Awuni, has uncovered that bits of the land, had proactively been willed to certain people, by the late Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, prevalently known as 'Sir John'.
All relevant information: Achimota Forest grounds, gold organizations and weapons in Sir John's will
Whenever President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo marked a chief instrument declassifying portions of the Achimota Forest as a timberland hold, numerous Ghanaians welcomed the choice with an overflow of shock.
Many took to web-based entertainment and blamed the political tip top for endeavors to offer the terrains to themselves and their comrades. The public authority has denied the allegations, saying it was just returning piece of the land to its legitimate owners.
Be that as it may, even as the residue on the Achimota Forest debate is yet to settle, the desire of a previous general secretary of the administering New Patriotic Party, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, had arisen and contains some package of grounds at the Forest hold.
Until his demise, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, famously known as Sir John, was the Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission.
The will, which has been located and affirmed by The Fourth Estate, contains four packages of indicated and undefined sections of land of land in the Achimota Forest, which the late legislator passed on to named people.
On page 4 of the will, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, whose office was arranged at the Achimota Forest until his passing, states:
"I give my property arrange at the Achimota Forest for the sake of Jakaypro Limited and estimating 5.541 sections of land to the accompanying people for eternity.
-Yaw Amoateng Afriyie - One (1) section of land
— Eva Akua Afriyie One (1) section of land
-Ivy Akua Afriyie One (1) section of land
-Elizabeth Asare Boateng (otherwise known as Mother) One (1) section of land
-Michael Owusu 1.541 sections of land
On page 5 of the will, it is expressed: "I give my territory likewise arrange at the Achimota Forest for the sake of Fasoh Limited and estimating 0.987acres to my nephews Michael Owusu, Yaw Boadu and Kwabena Amoateng until the end of time."
In total agreement, the will states: "I mutually own a real estate parcel at Achimota Forest with Charles Owusu. Upon my destruction, my part of the said land ought to be given to Ruth Korkor Odonkor."
That is not all. In total agreement 5 regardless on the Achimota Forest, the will states: "I give my piece of land that mutually own at the Achimota Forest for the sake of DML Limited to Elizabeth Asare Boateng who at the hour of making this will is domiciled in the USA until the end of time."
The previous top of the ranger service commission additionally expressed in the will that he claimed land at the Ramsar region in Sakumono in Accra.
"I give my property arrange at the Ramsar region at Sakumono in the Greater Accra Region and estimating 5.07 sections of land to my sisters Abena Saah and her kids, Comfort Amoateng and her youngsters, Abena Konadu and Juliet Akua Arko and her kids on equivalent offer premise perpetually," the will states.
The Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS) characterizes a Ramsar site as "a wetlands site assigned to be of worldwide significance under the Ramsar show. It accommodates public activity and worldwide participation in regards to the protection of wetlands, and savvy feasible utilization of their assets."
As indicated by CERSGIS, the Sakumono site "is the main wetland completely possessed by the public authority and is intended for safeguarding Sakumono, Tema and their environs against floods and contamination, for the reproducing of fish for the Sakumono Lagoon, as well as sporting exercises."
In June 2021, authorities of CERSGIS and the Forestry Commission visited the site and saw that the site had "go under genuine danger really close to annihilation because of the weighty infringement that had tormented the region for more than thirty years."
The Forestry Commission, which Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie headed until his demise, has distributed the Wetland Management (Ramsar Sites) Regulations 1999 that rundowns the Sakumono Ramsar site as a component of the safeguarded wetlands in Ghana. It disallows a large group of human exercises in Ramsar locales.
Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie kicked the bucket on July 1, 2020, of Covid-19-related difficulties while getting treatment at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
He made his most recent will on May 21, 2020, under two months before his demise. The will named Charles Owusu and Nana Boakye Acheampong as agents.
It contained houses, lands, Kejetia market slows down, gold creation ventures and cash in neighborhood and unfamiliar banks as the properties to be dispersed among the named people in the will.
Different properties to be acquired included fuel stations, 13 confidential vehicles and 10 fuel big haulers and five siphon activity firearms.
The all relevant information on Sir John's will, as detailed by the Fourth Estate's Manasseh Azure Awuni.