The La Concerned Youth has gnashed its teeth at the members of the La Traditional Council and called for the dissolution of the Council and resignation of the Akwashongtse and the Shikitele, Nii Adjei Kofeh for selling the La Aviation Land and Aviation park to Developers.
Addressing a news Conference at La in Accra on Wednesday (February 16,2022), the Convenor of the Association Mr. Joe Ala Adjetey questioned why the aforementioned leadership would hurriedly take a decision to sell the La Aviation lands and Aviation park immediately the La Chief died.
Convenor of La Concerned Youth, Mr. Joe Ala Adjetey
He further explained that 17 acres out of 60 acres of Land given to the La people by the government, the Traditional Council has gone ahead to even sell the only park which serves the youth of the La and about 17 first division football teams.
He said such an act from the Traditional Council smacks of corruption, and acting against the interest of the La people but rather their parochial interest.
“Why was the lease extended to 99 years when the new trend is now 50 years? Has the Mankralo and Shikitele got the capacity to release a stool land ? Mr. Ala Adjetey fumed.
“…Why must the La Traditional Council hasten to support the creation of modern estate houses for aliens and strangers whilst creating Zongos for her own?”.
Mr. Adjetey stressed that the leadership, having shown extreme incompetence, lack of foresight and insensitivity to the needs of the community during the transaction with government, “ we call on the Mankralo, Shikitele and Akwashontse to immediately resign their positions on the at the Traditional Council”.
“…We are also calling for immediate dissolution of the La Traditional Council as the current members have brought the sacrosancy of the Council into disrepute and public ridicule. Indeed they represent their own interest and not that of the good people of La”.
The group which expressed disgust at the government’s acquisition of the 60 acre Aviation land stressed that there is no existing reserved Lands to accommodate the growing population needs of the La people.
The Group is therefore calling on government to re-engage the La stool for the renegotiation of the entire Aviation lease.
“We are finally requesting government to explain the circumstance under which government and Civil Aviation Authority representatives on the negotiating table ended up being rewarded with various plots of the La Aviation lands”, Mr. Adjetey queried.
