A security expert, Emmanuel Bombande, has observed that the conflict between the people of Nkonya and Alavanyo in the Volta Region has gone beyond land.
According to him, although the conflict may have been started by disagreement over land some nine decades ago, it has resulted in deep-seated resentment, mutual suspicion, and hatred among the two communities, and so if the government has taken over the land, it must also look at these issues as a way of finding lasting solutions to the problem.
The Government of Ghana has announced the takeover of the disputed parcel of land between Alavanyo and Nkonya in the Volta Region.
The Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, made the announcement on the floor of parliament on Thursday June 8 while contributing to a statement calling for lasting peace in the area.
Speaking on this issue in an interview with Valentina Ofori-Afriyie on the 505 programme on Class 91.3FM on Thursday June 8, Mr Bombande said: “Over the decades, the Nkonya-Alavanyo conflict is the most protracted intercommunal conflict in Ghana. It predates Ghana’s independence. What has happened over the years is that the land, as the genesis of the conflict, has continuously become the genuine proximate cause of the conflict. The conflict has taken its own life beyond the land because it has not been addressed, because there has been no solution for long.
“It has produced the deep resentment, the mutual suspicion, the hatred, and this is because of the bloodletting and refuging, the killing and the disappearances.
“The consequences of this is what has brought us to where we are in which the protractedness of the conflict has deepened.”
Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com
