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Don’t Degazette Achimota Forest - CSOs Tell Government 

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) with focus on the environment and Occupy Ghana, a pressure group, have called on government to rescind its decision to degazette the Achimota Forest. They said the Executive Instrument degazetting the Forest would open it up to all types of development, which would adversely affect the…

Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, has dismissed reports suggesting that the Government has gazetteed an Executive Instrument (E.I.) to approve the redesignation, sale or development of Achimota Forest.  He said the passage of E.I. 154 (Declaration of Lands Remaining as Forest Reserve) by the…