THE TEKPEBIAWE Clan of Ada in the Greater Accra Region is calling on the Ghana Stock Exchange not to grant the request of Electrochem Ghana Limited, to enlist the company on the stock exchange market.
The Clan, in a press conference at Aminapa, in the East Ada District says the company lacks legitimacy to enlist Songor on the stock market especially when parliament is yet to resolve matters of illegality and arbitrary surrounding the Electrochem-Songor lease.
In attendance at the all-important presser were all the principal elders of the Tekpebiawe Clan, the original owners of the Songor Lagoon, including Nene Korle IV, “Wetsoyi”, and Libi Wornor, the Songor Chief Priest.
About two weeks ago, Electrichem Ghana Limited outdoored what it calls an outgrower scheme where it claims it has released one thousand acres land from its concession to the people. A move many call a charade to sway the public and parliament since none of the so-called seven benefiary groups has since had access to the so-called released portion.
The Tekpebiawe Clan contends that, Electrochem has no right to enlist Songor on the stock market or allocate a portion of it to anyone until the Parliamentary Select Committee on Mines, Energy and Natural Resources, resolves the Electrochem-Songor lease saga.
The Clan maintains that, the three leases granted to Electrochem is legally questionable and does not advance the course of PNDC Law 287, and the inclusion of small and medium producers in the Songor Lagoon.
Ebenezer Adjawutor who addressed the media on behalf of the elders, said “the revelation by the ranking member, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, that the committee’s report was prepared by someone and not the committee’s report which raises serious questions; and it substantiates our earlier suspicion about the report”.
The Clan that notwithstanding trusts steps being taken by parliament under the leadership of the Speaker, Rught Honourable Alban Kinsford Sumana Bagbin. “However, we have confidence in the ability and wisdom of the Speaker of Parliament to resolve this matter amicably and restore peace in Ada”, Mr. Adjawutor appealed.
Elders of the Clan as always maintained that, “The speaker needs look no far since the solution to this matter has long been found. The only way to resolve this matter is adherence to the PNDC Law 287 and religious implementation of the master plan of Songor for peace to prevail between us”.
One pertinent issue at the media engagement was frantic attempt by the McDan-led Electrochem aided by the Ada Traditional Council to desecrate the “Yomo” a sacred ground of the Songor diety.
And Tekpebiawe Clan sent a strong warning to the so-called investor to stay away from that sacred ground. “The Yomo existed long before our settlement and it is by it we the people of Ada exist. We shall protect ‘Yomo’ until the last drop of blood of the last Tekpebiawe Clan member” he emphasised.
Source: Nationaltymes.com
