Attorney-at-law and Pan Africanist Bert Samuels says if the treaty signed between the maroons and the British government still stands, the maroons will have a good case in proving that the laws governing their lands are different from that of Jamaica.

His comments follow claims by Chief of the Accompong Maroons Richard Currie that members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, JCF have been destroying their crops on a farm in St. Elizabeth.

Head of the Constabulary’s Corporate Communications Unit, Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay confirmed that members of the narcotics division conducted an operation and were removing ganja plants.

She told Irie Fm News that claims by some persons that the police have no jurisdiction over maroon lands are false.

In response, Mr. Samuels says the lands were granted to the maroons by the former English colonizers and as a result stipulates that they are not under Jamaican rule.

Mr. Samuels says the maroons are seemingly opposing the raiding of maroons lands used for the cultivation of cannabis by the police, on the terms of having full ownership of those lands.

Meantime, Accompong Maroon Chief, Richard Currie, says he reserves the right to defend his people using modern means.

This, after the Firearms Licensing Authority, FLA, said it was investigating the circumstances under which the Accompong Maroon leader had what appeared to be a shotgun strapped to his back during the recent confrontation with the police in the Cockpit Country.

Speaking in a video posted on his official Instagram page, as a response to the National Security Minister allegedly stating that there was no such thing as maroon lands, Chief Currie reiterated that the maroons are a sovereign people.