Kwesi Pratt Jr, the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, has urged government to employ a balanced policy to protect the Achimota forest which happens to be the only carbon sink in the Greater Accra Region.
Speaking to the dangers it poses to the lives of inhabitants of Accra on Pan African TV on March 22, 2025, he lamented the ongoing devastation of the Achimota forest under the guise that owners of the land occasionally approach government for certain arrangements in the interest of their family. "Every now and then they'll come and tell us that some family owns it and that the family is demanding it and so they are going into some agreement with the family.
Let that family go to hell! "Because it's our lives we are talking about.
The lives of 4 million people are at stake.
