We Don’t Have Akposo Kubi In Our Community‐Okogyeaman Asiedu Koram II Fumes

By Joseph Nana Yaw Cobbina

All available historic evidence establish clearly and conclusively that the indigenous inhabitants of Apesokubi Traditional Area are Akans whose forebears acquired the the area by conquest and settlement, and who have since remained in uninterrupted and effective possession and occupation of lands in the area for more than three hundred years, through warfare, court litigations, official state and institutional/departmental enquiry proceedings, and officially recorded peacefully negotiated settlements with adjoining neighbouring traditional states/areas.

Speaking at a news conference held in Accra, the Paramount Chief of Apesokubi Traditional Area, Okogyeaman Asiedu Koram II, clarify the complete falsehood churned out in an earlier press conference organized by the descendants of some Akposo immigrants from Togo, who settled in the Apesokubi Traditional Area in Ghana, mainly as farmlands during the early parts of the 20th century.

According to him, base on oral and historical facts, both proven and verifiable which he can state categorically that the claim of the Akposo immigrants are not only completely baseless but are also utter false.

Some of the authoritative official State/Public records that individually and collectively expose the claims of the immigrants as dishonest fabrication include the German Map of 1905 (the Dr.Grunner Map of Togo), clearly shows that Apesokubi Traditional Area on the one part and Akposso on the other part are located in British Togoland/Republic of Ghana and French Togoland/Republic of Togo respectively, the two areas are more than 80km apart, share no common boundary and there are intervening towns, including Asatu, kadjebi, Ahamansu, Dodi papaase, Dapaa, Ampeyo, Pampamwie, Jinjiso and Dodo Fie, which all located in the Kadjiebi district in the Oti region of Ghana. These is no connection or relationship between the two names Apesokubi and Akposso, let alone the falsified name “Akposo Kubi “, which does not exist on any colonial or Ghana Map.

He emphasis that certified true copy of extract from the registry of the E.P.Church Headquarters Ho, showing the formal acquisition by the Bremen Mission of Germany of Land from the indigenous Akans of Apesokubi in 1913 for the planting of churches.

The Kabo River and Asukawkaw River forest reserves enquiry proceedings 1929 to 1954: The reserves commissioner’s proceedings and judgements on boundary disputes arising between Apesokubi Stool and its Akan neighbours of Worawowa stool and Asasu Stool, when constituting the said forest reserves clearly showed the indigenous Akans in Apesokubi as the true owners of lands of the Apesokubi Traditional Area, covering towns and villages such as Apesokubi, Kabosreso(Kaboso),Okrabe, Asukawkaw, Akokrowa, Okanease, Metemanano, among many others, which can be found on many authentic colonial and Ghana Maps.