[ 2021-02-12 ]

Govt released our lands without a plan – Ga Chiefs
Some Chiefs of the Ga State in the Greater Accra
Region have revealed that the Akufo-Addo
administration released their state-held lands to
them last year.

However, the chiefs said the release was without a
plan.

A statement signed by Nii Djanie Tsuru Afutu
Brempong IV, on behalf of the Chiefs said “We
want to urgently draw government’s attention to
the present happenings on lands released to us by
the state in December 2020 last year without a
plan that comes with whitepapers on land release
due to the illegitimate activities of some state
actors on the land released invariance to the
directives of the president, His Excellency Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, announced by his vice, His
Excellency Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia at Danfa, last
year.

“They are holding onto the plan and cutting of
the various boundaries for the three communities,
being Danfa, Kweiman and Amrahia in a bid to
conceal and protect their own interest to the
detriment of us, the custodians of the lands.”

The statement added “the president has heeded to
our request by instructing the stakeholders on the
matter to release 40% of our lands to us but
unfortunately, the whitepaper was given to us
without the release plan.

“Surprisingly, the very portion released to us
has been hijacked by one Clement Gyato, a
self-styled caretaker of government lands. Last
week, he moved heavy equipment to site and started
winning gravel on our lands without our consent,
as you all can witness. When questioned, he said
he was winning the gravel to repair roads but our
investigation shows that he was actually selling
the gravels to private contractors” and further
claimed that he derives his powers from the First
Lady

“We have reported the matter to the presidency
and National security personnel were sent to pick
his numerous land guards he assigned to carry out
the project.”

“We would like to end our statement here by
giving stakeholders involved in the issuance of
the release plan a one-week ultimatum to hand over
the release plan to us or else, we shall take
possession of the portion allocated to us

Source - 3 News

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