After a press convention to strongly condemn encroachment actions on authorities-owned land at Mempeasem, a suburb of Accra and likewise declaring authorities’s willpower to win again the acres of land, the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon.Benito Owusu-Bio paid a working go to to Mpehuasem on Wednesday, thirteenth July, 2022, to witness for himself the state of affairs on the website.
He advised the media that the principle objective of his go to was additionally to indicate Ghanaians and most people, what the actions of the Lands Commission has been in finishing up their mandate, which is to guard authorities lands and make sure that all developments, expecially on State lands conform to effectively deliberate schemes.
In his submission, he identified that “State lands must not be left for people to develop and turn into slums. Also we should not sit down for people to just encroach on government-owned lands and take them as their private properties, that should never be the case”.
He stated a lot of the growth on the website have been achieved with out correct growth schemes after sending out plenty of notifies to cease erecting such buildings, including that homeowners of such buildings should get them regularized, and people that can’t be regularized might be peaceable ejected to assist save the Lands for future use and for posterity.
The Deputy Minister additionally famous that the Ministry and the Lands Commission is in collaboration with with the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council to sanitise and guarantee correct administration of Lands within the nation.
He famous that the Lands Ministry and all different stakeholders will proceed this motion of demolition and sanitisation peacefully with none attempt, not solely in Mempeasem however within the likes of CSIR, Frafraha, Sakumano, Ramsar Site, Diary Farms Amrahia amongst others.
Responding to the query of compensating the Chiefs within the space who could lay claims to those lands, Hon. Benito disclosed that authorities via the Lands Commission has in 2019 compensated the Chiefs a second time with 114 acres of land out of a complete of 225 acres within the space.
He additionally clarified that AYNOK Holdings is a reputable firm contracted by the Lands Commission to help them in reclaiming authorities lands, stressing that “the commission has the constitutional mandate to employ whoever they choose to support them in their line of work and that is why they work with the police, the Military and all those security agencies to help eliminate the illegalities in the system”
Hon. Benito touted that the lands sector has the total backing and approval of the Sector Minister, Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor as he’s very a lot involved about these land points and has subsequently mandated them to make sure that the fitting factor is completed in all places.
Hon. Benito went on to warning the general public that those that want to purchase Lands ought to go to the Lands Commission and get their Lands registered legally to keep away from future implications resembling demolition saying that “those who are doing the right thing will be encouraged while those doing the wrong thing will be reprimanded”
Mr. Dadson on his half famous that the Lands Commission have gotten the approval of the Ayawaso West Assembly to start a correctly deliberate land scheme which can see to the development of drainage programs and make sure that the world is effectively layed out.
Mr. Dadson reiterated that these erecting buildings within the space ought to halt all their actions to allow the fee embark on the planning scheme for the right laying out of space.
He additionally famous that residents who personal accomplished buildings on the Lands should go to the Lands Commission to personal up and regularize the Lands if essential.
“It will be good if those who have finished and furnished structures to visit the Commission to have them regularized, because when we start rolling out this scheme, even if you have a finished structure and it is in waterways or perhaps the paths designated for roads will be bulldozed off to make way for the road”
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