Hon. Benito Owusu-Bio, the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, answerable for Lands and Forestry has charged the the Adenta Divisional Police Commander to guard authorities lands at Amrahia, a suburb of Accra, from additional encroachment because the Lands are being encroached with impunity.
Government via the Lands Ministry have for some years now, been preventing encroachers on the Adenta Amrahia Dairy Farm lands and have at present made headway in working with numerous households concerned to make sure that the Lands are handed over peaceable to the preacquisition house owners.
Inspite of all these efforts, the Lands are being closely encroached upon with impunity and the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Benito Owusu-Bio may have no extra of it.
At the sight of the extent of encroachment, Hon. Benito Owusu-Bio flared-up and tasked the Commander saying, “ensure that no further works continue here until the lands are handed over to the rightful owners. Get bulldozers and demolish all these walls as soon as possible”
The Deputy Minister gave these directions when he paid a working go to to the Amrahia Dairy Farm lands on Wednesday, twenty fifth January, 2023 to examine the extent of progress within the correct demarcation of Lands and additional handing over to the rightful house owners.
He defined to the commander authorities’s intentions saying that “government wants to ensure that the policy and promise made to hand over a portion of the aquired lands to the preacquisition owners, is followed and as we speak work is almost complete on keeping this promise but others are still trying to ruin government’s plans and we cannot sit and allow that happen”
He instructed the police to as quickly as potential, put up a police or to guard the surveyors who can be demarcating the parts of Lands and likewise to make sure their work just isn’t interrupted by the actions of land guards and different intruders. Adding that their safety will go a good distance to make sure that there are sufficient lands to construct inexpensive homes for presidency businesses.
Hon. Owusu-Bio additionally instructed the surveyors to start work as quickly as practicable and mount up boundary pillars to correctly demarcate the lands, whereas requesting them to contain reps from the assorted households to make sure a peaceable work and transpersncy.
In his directions, he additionally tasked the surveyors to make sure that all pillars mounted are color quoted to convey readability of possession and limits, in order that “Family A” doesn’t find yourself working into “Family B” lands.
The Adenta Divisional Police Commander, Abraham Acquaye assured the Deputy Minister, that earlier than they start work, he’ll reassemble the Chiefs to tell them once more of this final leg to make sure a peaceable constructing of those boundaries.
He additionally assured that instantly after the demarcation is completed, he’ll be sure that handing over occasion is peacefully and safely achieved.
The Technical Director for Lands on the Ministry, Mr. Maxwell Adu-Nsarfoa took the commander via the map, exhibiting him the demarcations to verify the boundaries and function a tenet for his or her work.
He indicated {that a} surveyor will present the route for the boundaries and likewise present bulldozers to open up the boundaries after which the pillars can be mounted to provide manner for easy operations, reiterating that the police’s responsibility can be to guard the folks and the machines on website.
The Technical Director additionally burdened that at present, authorities has not formally handed over any elements of the lands to any get together or household and subsequently till after the demarcations, anybody who trys to assert possession of the lands ought to be seen and handled as a land guard or an intruder.
