Jama Leadership Forcefully Seizes 5 Outboard Motors And Engine Boat Belonging To Bui Dam Fishermen Association, After Jama Market Protest.
The Chief and elders at Jama community in Bole district in Savannah region has forcefully seized 5 outboard motors and engine boat belonging to Bui Dam Fishermen Association chairman Mr. Dordzi Moses along the Bui lake after protest against Jama leadership over new law enforced in the Jama market.
The news received by the website revealed that the leadership of Jama community in regulating a new policy for it’s market in November 2023 has spelt out doom for them and led to some forceful law on business men and women who trades in the market especially the fishermen and people along the Bui lake or upstream whom constitutes the majority of the market population.
Due to new law imposed on them to buy and sell in the market starting from 4:00 pm on Thursday evening to Saturday which they disagreed with, new laws or penalties were also added which doesn’t go down well for them.
They demonstrated and vow not to return to the Jama market again due to the imposed laws which negotiations failed to over turn in several attempt.
The P.R.O Mr Moses Adzani speaking to the media noted that the market has been recently migrated to Bongase lakeside in the Bono region which in some details found has brought an attack on people trying to visit the market in Bongase from Jama community and it environment got blocked with road block and security men allegedly threatening them to move after they Jama leadership sends an apology and they gave them two weeks to respond to their apology.
The P.R.O said some engine boats were attacked when coming to market on market days at Bongase on the river with guns and security men by Jama leadership order.
He said that they’ve stopped after they couldn’t stop the people nor force them to land at Jama over bank.
Leading to that Bui Dam Fishermen Association chairman’s engine boat and 5 outboard motors were forcefully captured at Jama over bank on 8th, January 2024 without known reasons while the two weeks to respond to the Jama leadership is not up to date yet.
According to the P.R.O Moses Adzani, Mr Dordzi Moses who is a fisher man, who also carries many people to Jama market on market in the past has not been able to work for one month now due to his boat being captured and could not send his kids to school since school reopened and facing a lot of problems.
According to another information picked and confirmed by the P.R.O, the Bole district Chief Executive, MP and the security agencies have sat on the case and told the leadership of Jama that they don’t have any moral right to seize such items and order them to release the seized 5 outboard motors and engine boat but they have refused to comply with the order for over 2 weeks now.
The engine boat is currently left on dry land according to the P.R.O. Experts have disclosed that the engine boat has spoilt due to long stay on the dry and constructing new boat is the only option for now.
“If you bring me my market, I will give you your sized items,” Jama chief allegedly said to threaten the boat union chairman after several attempt to retrieve the seized 5 outboard motors reportedly found.
According to checks, all the outboard motors seized were 40 horsepower machines which each is amounted to GHC 40,000. The P.R.O revealed that amount of items seized by Jama chief and elders is amounted to GHC 300,000.
Meanwhile the Bui Dam Fishermen Association chairman has allegedly refute the claim that he has not take Jama market away and he does not have such power to do that but it was the people’s own will to move away.
Some people also alleged that some Jama community members keeps telling them that they the Ewe people ( fishermen ) don’t have any place to go so they must comply with any law imposed on them which triggered the people to move away.
Moreover, Bongase leadership has embrace the controversial market switch which has migrated to their territory with joy and has dedicated a big portion of land for construction of new market within some shortest possible time with Bui power authority including the Banda district and MP Hon Ahmed Ibrahim of Banda constituency.
The P.R.O concluded that Mr Dordzi Moses is also calling on the government, Volta caucus to help him retrieve his forceful seized items and build the new market for better growth for Banda district.
