Ga Dangme Council Appeals For Protection

Accra, April 25, Joy Online -- The Ga Dangme Council is priming itself up for a demonstration, to reversing an emerging trend that could make Ga Dangme people extinct or reduce them to an indigenous minority.

The council is embarking on an all out media campaign for public support for a protest march on Tuesday.

The demonstration aims at prompting a quick response from government on a number of issues including their culture, language and Ga Dangme lands.

The council is demanding the scrapping of the land development act of 1960, which applies only in Accra. It says the Act has encouraged people with the means to build quickly on illegally acquired lands to lintel level after which the actual owners lose rights to their land in court.

The registrar of the Ga Dangme Council, Naa Kordai Assimeh told JOY News that countless efforts for government?s intervention have failed.

? We are marching for justice, In 2002 we sent a letter to the President asking for audience, because there has been a lot of misunderstanding and misrepresentations of the intention of Ga Dangme Council and we want to have a chat or dialogue with the father of the nation. But we are yet to receive a response,? she says.

Besides its demand for the land development act to be expunged, the Council also says it wants the language of the indigenous people to be taught in schools as well as for their culture to be respected.

?The Ga language is taught in few areas, which is a problem for the council, we are saying that we have become an endangered species,? she says.