The Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, has stated that members of the Minority caucus will do everything within their capacity to stop the reclassification of the Achimota Forest. Suhuyini, who is also the Ranking Member of Parliament’s Lands Committee, said allowing development in the forest will put the country at risk, particularly Ghanaians living in Accra. He lamented that declassifying almost half of the Achimota Forest was going to be a risk and the president has not explained how the declassification was going to help.
The Tamale North lawmaker also disclosed that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) government has spent more than GH¢400 million on afforestation programmes aside from the annual Green Ghana Day and so it is preposterous that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will issue Executive Instrument 144 to reclassify the Achimota Forest for commercial and residential developments.
Suhuyini added that they will doeverything to save the forest, and that the committee’s intention was to visit the forest on Thursday to ascertain whether they were indeed demarcating portions to the Owoo family because they will not be poisoned because the Achimota Forest saves and filters the air due to how choked Accra has become.
