SONUN (KPONE TRADITIONAL COUNCIL)

The Chiefs and people of Kpone have released a 48 acre land to the Asogli Power , an Independent Power Provider to replace the disputed land which was initially allocated to the company for the development of a power plant .

The land allocated by the Kpone Traditional Council (KTC ) lies on the left hilly side of the TEMA –Kpone road and half the size of the initial land located near the Volta Aluminium Company .(VALCO )

This was announced by the Registrar , Mr Harry Attipoe at a meeting of members of the ten clans of the Kpone Traditional Council at Kpone on Friday and presided over by the Appolonia Mantse Nii Tei Adumoah who acted on behalf of the Kpone Mantse Nii Tetteh Otu.


The meeting was presided over by Nii Tei Adumoah 11 and attended by elders of the ten clan houses and Council members .

He said the Council has also directed the Asogli Power Company to normalize the allocation of the plot with the Tema Development Corporation for the processing of documents.

Mr Attipoe declined to comment further on the land issue between the Council and VALCO .

Mr Attipoe warned a group of people in the town who are parading themselves as king makers of Kpone to desist from the act of causing confusion in the area .

He explained that the Council recently gave a parcel of land to Mr Brew Butler but later the group deceived him into believing that they were the kingmakers of Tema and therefore must be recognized as such .

Mr Attipoe said the Council caused the arrest of some youth who under the pretex of being king makers stopped the workers from clearing the land for the take –off of the project .

He explained that under the Kpone tradition neither the chief nor kingmakers allocated lands as it was only the traditional council that had the authority to do so .

Mr Attipoe futher stated that Kpone had no stool land as its lands had already been acquired by the government of which the Tema Development Corporation released some to the council from time to time .

The KTC Registrar said three leaders of the youth Abraham Tei Ablade , Kano and Okoe who led the youth to insult the chiefs after disrupt the work on the land , would be put before court as their conduct contravenes Section 53 (A) of the Chieftaincy Act.



On the issue of the dispute between the Council and Valco over the ownership of the parcel of land first allocated to the Asogli Power which was initiated by Togbe Afede XIV , Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State , he said the issue had been sent to a High Court for determination.