An Open Letter To Awula Serwah - Of The Eco-Conscious Citizens Group

Awula Serwah, I speak humbly, as a major private stakeholder, in the upland evergreen rainforest in question (whose family are lucky and privileged to own a total of 14-square miles of freehold land, in the Atewa Range with 99.6 acres of it inside the official government forest reserve).


Ohemaa, the irony in all this, is that all that is actually needed, on the ground, so to speak, is to empower the youth in fringe-forest communities, such as those in Osino, Saamang, and Akyem Juaso, to bootstrap their way out of poverty. Simple. Uncomplicated. Doable. Case closed.

Empowering the younger generations in fringe-forest communities can easily be done, for example, by offering them free training courses, to enable them: farm giant African land snails; produce organic honey; produce organic mushrooms; and, paid well, monthly, they will happily protect the Atewa Forest Reserve, as community forest guards, and grow industrial hemp in sundry community land restoration schemes. It is that simple, Ohemaa.


Yet, for decades, trillions of the hard currency equivalent, in Ghana cedis, have been collected by sundry NGOs, with very little impact on those poor rural farming communities, nationwide. That is the true scandal. That, and the stupidity of Vice President Bawumia, and Senior Minister, Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo - who went to China and signed away the birthright of Akyems without our permission.


And, as the Atewa Forest Reserve faces an existential threat, where, pray, are the Chiefs of the Akyem Abuakwa State Council, who for years, fanned their massive egos, by greenwashing - making patently untruthful claims that they were committed protectors of Mother Nature?


They are also another treacherous group, which will be roundly condemned by future generations, for aiding and abetting that privileged-insider-group of shortsighted morons-in-high-places, who have sanctioned the crime against humanity that allowing the mining of bauxite, and gold, in the Atewa Range, and the Atewa Forest Reserve, represent. Shame on all of them. Hypocrites. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana eyeasem - asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Hmmmm. Yooooo...