[ 2012-06-30 ]

Peki settlements must be under South-Dayi District-Deiga
Peki, (V/R), June 27, GNA-Togbe Kwadwo Dei XI,
Deiga (Paramount) Chief of Peki Traditional Area,
Tuesday called on the Government to place all Peki
settlements and communities under the South-Dayi
District Assembly for the sake of peace.

These settlements include those from Dededo to
Kpetornu.

This was contained in a statement read on his
behalf by his Adontehene, Togbe Ayim Mordey VI,
Chief of Peki Avetile in protest against the
ceding of communities from Kpetornu to Dededo to
the newly created Ho-West District Assembly,
formerly part of the Ho Municipal Assembly.

The statement, therefore, called on the Government
to suspend the inauguration of the Ho-West
District Assembly, which includes those
settlements in order to maintain peace in the
area.

The statement said: “Dededo was surreptitiously
hacked from the then Kpando District and placed
under the Ho West Municipal Assembly” when the
South-Dayi District was created out of the Kpando
District.

The statement said: “The Dededo Market toll is
collected by the Ho Municipal Assembly while
South-Dayi District Assembly gains nothing from
Dededo in spite of the fact that Dededo used to be
under the Kpando District” out of which South Dayi
was carved.

The statement described the ceding of Peki
settlements to Ho Municipal Assembly and now to
the Ho-West District Assembly by Government as
“extreme provocations.”

“This seems to suggest a re-demarcation of the
boundary between Peki (Avetile) and Awudome
(Tsito).”

The statement said the decision by the Government
to put Peki settlements first under the
Ho-Municipal Assembly instead of South-Dayi and
now under Ho-West District Assembly amounted to
ceding those settlements to “our opponents” who
form part of those Districts.

The statement, therefore, called on the Government
to maintain the status-quo pending the
determination of the substantive land litigation
between the Peki (Avetile) and Awudome (Tsito) by
the High Court.

Source - GNA

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