Victims Of Gomoa Budumburam Demolition Exercise Hijack Classrooms Of Schools; Affecting Education Activities In the Area

TENSIONi is seriously blowing in the Gomoa Buduburam, known as Liberia Camp in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region following the decision of demolition affected residents to hijack Buduburam Point Hope D/A Basic School.

They are using classrooms as their bedrooms after chiefs of Gomoa Fetteh and Buduburam demolished their houses on Tuesday February 28, 2024, amidst wails and cries.

Over 2000 Ghanaians and Liberian nationals were affected in the ongoing demolition exercise which started on Tuesday at Buduburam.

Pupils of Gomoa Buduburam Point Hope Basic School have been asked to go home because all classrooms have been occupied by Liberian nationals.

In an interview with Soireenews.com, some of the affected Liberian nationals indicated that they have no option but to occupy the school since the school was built for them by the United Nations.

The affected persons say they have been in the Liberia camp for 33 years but the chiefs failed to notify them before demolishing their houses.

They noted that they had taken the decision to occupy the classrooms of the schools stemmed from the fact that the UN has built the facilities for the community because of them.

"So since the traditional authorities of the Gomoa Fetteh have not valued us and took the decision to demolish our homes, and that we also have no option than to go and occupy the classrooms of the schools, because the schools were built by UN due to their stay in the area," the Liberian nationals told Soireenews.com.

The Gomoa Fetteh Traditional Council last week threatened to demolish portions of Zone E of the Budumburam camp to make way for the development of a market for traders who have been affected by the ongoing expansion works on the Kasoa-Winneba Highway.

The Traditional Authority said the activities of these market women along the stretch are impeding the work of contractors working on the expansion of the highway.

The traditional Council carried through with the threat by demolishing several structures at the Liberia Camp.

However, the rightfully accredited and principal elders of the Abor Ewusi Royal family of Gomoa Fetteh who are allodial owners of the said land in question at Gomoa Budumburam strongly kicked against the demolition exercise.

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday February 28, 2024 to set the record straight about the matter, the newly installed Principal Head of Abor Ewusi Royal family of Gomoa Fetteh, Nana Ewusi questioned the credibility of those self seeking elders of the Gomoa Fetteh Traditional Council who had ordered for the exercise to be done.

"I am now the current Principal Head of Abor Ewusi Royal family of Gomoa Fetteh and that what l am saying is that this exercise being carried in the supervision by a combined team of military and police personnel was unlawful and illegal. Because l personally or the principal elders of the family have received no notice from those unaccredited elders prior to demolition of the building structures in the area.

"So we, the rightfully and allodial owners of the said land of where the building structures were demolished are going to use all legal means to ensure that this land is not being used to create space for the development of a market for traders who have been affected by the ongoing expansion of the Kasoa-Winneba Highway because the elders of the area who ordered for the exercise did unthinkable and unlawful things," Nana Nana Ewusi vowed.

He stated that the rightful and accredited elders of the Abor Awusi family were not aware of the demolition exercise which was carried to pull down building structures on the said land.