Nana Ansah Adu-Baah II, the Paramount Chief of Yamfo Traditional Area, who is also the President of the Ahafo Region House of Chiefs has said the Yamfo area had the biggest forest reserve in the region and appealed to the Government to consider the establishment of a forestry office in the area.
He noted that the forestry office in the area will control illegal activities of chainsaw operators and preserve the forest reserves too.
The chief said this when President Akufo-Addo called on him and the members of the Yamfo Traditional Council to begin his two-day working visit to the Ahafo Region.
Nana Adu-Baah II expressed worry that illegal logging and lumbering had become rampant and depleting forest reserves in the region.
In 2018, a group calling itself Youth for Development Association (YDA) of Yamfo in the Tano North District of Brong Ahafo Region accused the former Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr. Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh of failing to curb illegal loggers and Galamsey operators in the area.
In a petition, the group indicated that the Bosomkese Forest Reserve at Yamfo in the Tano North District which has been preserved for so many years has been invaded by some illegal loggers and Galamsey operators.
The group suggested that Government should assign the Forestry Commission and its task force and the security services to quickly move into stop the illegal logging and galamsey activities that are threatening the survival of this very important Forest Reserve.
Tano North, Aside from the vast fertile land which is suitable for the cultivation of a wide range of cash and food crops, the District has a forest reserve and several tree species such as Odum, Mahogany, Ceba, Akasaa among others which can be explored for Timber and two forest reserves namely Bosomkese and Apape Forest Reserves.
The second dominant vegetation type is the guinea savannah found in the northern and northwestern parts around Subriso and Yamfo where cattle rearing are predominant.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
