The Greater Accra Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has demolished unauthorized structures on parts of the degraded Dodowa forest after declaring the area a security zone.
This decision to declare the area a security zone and embark on the demolishing exercise comes after concerns from the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs about increasing encroachment by private developers.
REGSEC, in collaboration with the Forestry Commission, initiated a tree-planting exercise to help restore the affected areas of the forest. Daniel Titus Glover, the Regional Minister and Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Security Council, spoke on the reasons for the initiative.
He said, “We declared the Dodowa forest and Katamanso Pinkwai forests a security zone. These are two landmark forests in Ga-dangbe history. So we are here to regain our forest, and with the support of the forestry commission, they have given us some trees that we are coming to plant.”
“So we are here to do two things. We break this wall and plant the trees back. This place is a security zone, we are regaining our forest back.”
