{"id":1090415,"date":"2022-05-17T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/why-achimota-forest-reserve-is-trending-on-social-media\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:54:31","slug":"why-achimota-forest-reserve-is-trending-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/why-achimota-forest-reserve-is-trending-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Achimota Forest Reserve is trending on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"478\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image_2022-05-17_152533399-696x478.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Achimota Forest\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Achimota Forest | credit: kuulpeeps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Achimota Forest Reserve has been trending on social media, especially Twitter and Facebook, since midday.<\/p>\n<p>This follows reports that government has through an Executive Instrument (E.I), said the very popular reserve is no longer a forest reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the E.I signed by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, states that the land is no longer required as a forest reserve.<\/p>\n<p>It further added that the cessation is effective May 1, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Executive Instrument (E.I.) 144 gazetted on behalf of President Akufo-Addo by the Lands Minister Samuel Abdulai Jinapor indicates that effective May 1, 2022, the land on which the Forest is located shall cease to be a forest reserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s action was in accordance with Section 19 of the Forest Act, 1927 (CAP. 157) which gives him the authority to declare that particular land is no longer required as a forest reserve,\u201d a portion of the E.I said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are reactions on Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1LyXrEP01NumUKjr6NfVUvw4rWNA-Y5pI\/preview\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This news has got a lot of Twitter users expressing their concerns on same.<\/p>\n<p>The Achimota School Twitter handle (@AchimotaSchool) tweeted asking \u201cis it true Achimota Forest Reserve has been sold?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/<br \/>In 1930, the colonial govt of Gold Coast (now Ghana) bought about 5 sq km of land in Achimota, marginally increasing its meagre land holdings, to set up a Forest Reserve. In 2013, the govt transformed the reserve into an Eco-park. This month, the Prez ended the reserve status. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ZhxTFzmou\">pic.twitter.com\/4ZhxTFzmou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bright Simons (@BBSimons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBSimons\/status\/1526563158361624576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Below are a few of the tweets in relation to the news:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How have we wronged you, Akufo-Addo? You gave Atewa to the Chinese, and now you want to desecrate Achimota?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manasseh Azure Awuni (@Manasseh_Azure) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Manasseh_Azure\/status\/1526582218335956996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The cessation of Achimota forest as a reserve really worries me. In this era of climate change. Something all past Presidents have avoided but only one decided to do. Ei!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El (@Naa_Rida) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Naa_Rida\/status\/1526559196573061122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"593\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-41.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2115541\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"IAE-d1-mg68\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IAE-d1-mg68?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achimota Forest | credit: kuulpeeps The Achimota Forest Reserve has been trending on social media, especially Twitter and Facebook, since midday. This follows reports that government has through an Executive Instrument (E.I), said the very popular reserve is no longer a forest reserve. Details of the E.I signed by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[13915,6194,1943,13916,1944,4735],"class_list":["post-1090415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-achimota","tag-forest","tag-media","tag-reserve","tag-social","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}