The forestry Commission of Ghana led by Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie signed an Agreement with the China National Electronic Export and Import Corporation (CEIEC) on the 22nd of January 2019 at the Boardroom of the Forestry Commission HQ.

FORESTRY COMMISSION STAFF SHOT IN THE CHIPA FOREST RESERVE

28TH JAN, 2019. Mr. Emmanuel Tei, a Chief Resource Guard with the Tema District of the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission, was shot by an unidentified person on 25th January, 2019, in the Chipa Forest Reserve, Agomeda.

PRESS STATEMENT

RESPONSE TO ALLEGATIONS OF WRONG SEIZURE OF WOOD FROM SOKOBAN WOOD DEALERS BY FORESTRY COMMISSION MONITORING TEAMS

Introduction

For the past year and a half, there has been allegations and outcry from wood dealers from Sokoban Wood Village in Kumasi, about unlawful seizure of their wood by Forestry Commission Monitoring Teams. On January 8, 2019, a group of wood dealers, numbering about forty – five (45), besieged the Forestry Commission (FC) Headquarters, located on the GIMPA Road.  The reason for their presence on the Commission’s premises was to present their grievances to the Chief Executive. Among them, were: