The Ghana Environmental Advocacy Group has requested that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo withdraw the Executive Instrument (EI) on the Achimota Forest that he signed.
Parts of the Achimota Forest will be removed from the forest reserve.
This follows the signing of an EI by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to declassify portions of the reserve.
But the group opposed the EI said “We would like to remind Mr President that forest reserves are not only helping us by being the lungs of our country and preserving critical flora and fauna for current and future generations, but they are also becoming good money earners as participants in carbon credit exchanges.
“We at the Ghana Environmental Advocacy Group join fellow Ghanaians and urge the President to rescind the said Executive Instrument 144, explore alternative means of compensating the original owners of the land and do everything in his power to maintain and preserve the integrity of the entirety of Achimota Forest Reserve.”
