The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong has sent a stern warning to custodians of lands mostly chiefs in the country as well as encroachers to stay away from lands he legally bought from them.
“I will not hustle outside Ghana and sit unconcerned for any chief in Ga, Fante or Asante whatever chief to take my land they know I have legally bought from them. It will never work on my side because I will deal with them”, the businessman vowed in a video sighted by MyNewsGh.com
The maverick politician, who spoke in an interview granted outside the shores of Ghana therefore vowed to do everything within the laws of Ghana to protect, defend and sacrifice his live if that will help protect the acquired lands.
“The land guards and everyone should hear this. I don’t have a gun. But I have a gun which is powerful than any gun in the country and that is truth”, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong revealed.
Threats of the lawmaker come at a time Land expert at the University of Cape Coast, Ing. Dr Ebenezer Nana Gyamera, is calling on government and the Lands Commission to involve paramount chiefs in the land registration process if the country wants to see an end to problems characterizing land sales, ownership and registration in the country.
He explained that continuous litigations and associated violence characterising land acquisition and registration in the country mean that existing regulations and procedures concerning land registration are porous and must be reviewed to make the process water-tight in protecting people’s property from being taken over by persons with superior financial power.
Ing. Dr. Ebenezer Gyamara stressed that the paramount chiefs of the various traditional areas know the areas better than officials of the Land Commission in terms of the real owners of the land as well as the boundaries and so such paramount chiefs could help ensure due diligence in transferring interest in such lands to other parties to prevent land ownership conflicts.
“The paramount chiefs are gazetted and the sub-chiefs, heads of families and even individual owners of lands pay allegiance to them and so if they are supposed to append their signature before the land is sold, then the various owners of land who would want to transfer their interest or sell off such lands will follow proper rules and not engage in double sales and acts of connivance as not only could they suffer punishments from the paramount chiefs but also their transactions could be rendered null and void by the registering authorities and no person wants to go through this humiliating act,” he stated.
