A Ghanaian industrialist, Mr Daniel AkweteyTetteh, has expressed concern over the growing trend where land earmarked for community development are sold to private developers.
He said the trend had become widespread at Kpone- Katamanso in the Greater Accra Region where landdocumentsforged and signatures faked to sell lands belonging to schools, cemeteries, hospitals and other lands allocated for community projects.
Mr Tetteh, who is the Board Chairman of Appolonia City made this known at a fundraising event for Appoloniaschool.
The event was meant to raise support to help the school renovate some parts of its dilapidated blocks and facilities.
He said Appolonia City had over the past years, invested in a number of projects to support the development of Appoloniaschool.
“The management has committed resources to enhance the education of the people. Some of them include building of additional blocks for the Appolonia Junior High School, upgrading of a CHIPS Compound for the municipality, and installation of water tanks for the school children,” he said.
As part of the event, the management of Appolonia City pledged to give the school GH₵ 60,000 to aid in repairing broken down facilities and to put up a new classroom blockto be able to admit more students.
According Mr Tetteh, one of the reasons that had contributed to the sale of unauthorised lands was the refusal of land buyers to follow due process.
Instead of undertaking due diligence before making any attempt to buy lands, he said, most of them decide to go ahead without proper checks and later hire the services of land guards.
He said the community would no longer allow anybody to sell land earmarked for community development.
Mr Tetteh urged indigenes who engage in selling such lands not to allow their own personal interest to override the collective benefit of the entire community.
“You are selling every piece of land forgetting that these lands are supposed to be protected and wisely invested to benefit the people. God is not creating any more land in case people have forgotten,’ he said.
Mr Tetteh said the people were fortunate to be in Greater Accra where land value was high therefore the need to protect the lands.
Mr Tetteh, therefore called on the KponeKatamanso Municipality, the GaAdangbe leadership in the constituency to join forces in combating illegal land sale in Appolonia town.
By Times Reporter
