CEO of Hubtel, Alex Bram has donated a new police station to Dokrochiwa, the Eastern Region village where he grew up, built on the same land where his grandfather sold cocoa beans to help pay for his education.

The station, in the Ayensuano District, was commissioned on Thursday, September 3, at a ceremony attended by traditional leaders, senior police officers, local government officials and residents.

Despite the joy of the people of Dokrochiwa at the gesture, Alex Bram will not call it a donation.

“This police station is not a donation. It is a dividend,” he told the gathering.

The distinction rests on the ground under the building.

“Today is a huge day for all of us. It’s as big as when this village got it’s first school, first electricity connection, or first tarred road.” he said. “Where this police station is built today is also a special place because it was where many farmers gathered to sell their cocoa beans to make a living some decades ago.”

That farm is where his own story starts. His grandfather, Daniel Kwaku Bram, was among the cocoa farmers who worked the lands around Dokrochiwa, and the family’s registration with the Ghana Cocoa Board through the farm later opened the way for a cocoa scholarship. It carried Alex Bram through St. Augustine’s College, then to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and eventually into technology and entrepreneurship. The community, in his telling, invested first. The station is what it has earned.

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He recalled a Dokrochiwa of limited infrastructure, where a school and a few churches were the notable landmarks. Electricity, a market, water and roads followed over the years, changing how residents lived and worked.

“And so, today is a great day,” he said. “It brings back that joy of having each of these critical infrastructures. It is also a befitting reminder of the hard work and sacrifices that our grandparents put in to get us here. We must let that same spirit guide us to strive to do more for our communities.”

“An investment in peace” 

Local leaders welcomed the facility. Josephine Awuley Ansaa Inkoom, former District Chief Executive for Ayensuano, called it a significant contribution to the town, pointing to the role security plays in protecting residents, maintaining order and supporting growth.

The current District Chief Executive, Joshua Yaw Frederick Lartey, said he had supported the accompanying police bungalow with 50 bags of cement, along with sand for the barracks. He described the project as “an investment in peace”, saying it represented hope, security and continued development for Dokrochiwa.

DCOP Charles Kofi Adu, the Regional Police Commander, commended the initiative and urged residents to work with the Ghana Police Service rather than take the law into their own hands. He also asked young people to take their education and personal development seriously, noting that the choices they make now shape what they are able to give back later. 

Ogyeahoho Barima Anom I, chief of Dokrochiwa and Benkumhene of Kyebi Apapam, thanked the family of D.K Bram, Mr. Moses Bram Adjei and his son Alex Bram for the project and said he hoped residents would live in harmony with the officers posted to the town.

“This is our own” 

Alex Bram asked residents to protect the facility and to support the officers who will work there.

“This is our own,” he said. 

For a town whose history is bound up with the cocoa farms that once shaped the area, the station is another marker in a long process of development. For Alex Bram, it is a return to the ground where his story began, and a chance to add something to the one Dokrochiwa is still writing.