ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the extent to which the resettlement experience gained in Akosombo guided the planning and execution of Kpong. Capped by the Akosombo resettlement “working party,” it was a loosely knit organization that lacked the authority and institutional strength needed to manage such a complex resettlement operation. The requirement that any person claiming compensation for land should produce documentary evidence lay at the root of the land compensation problem that characterized the Akosombo resettlement problem and which partly contributed to the problem of access to land by settlers. The Kpong resettlement agricultural project avoided the land problems that afflicted the Akosombo scheme by retaining, as far as practicable, the resettled communities within their respective traditional lands. The nature of the agricultural resettlement policy for the Akosombo resettlement scheme was largely dictated by the government’s agricultural policy, embodied in the Seven Year Development Plan.