Submit documents on land to appropriate authorities, Minister advices chiefs

Ho (Volta Region), 13th May ?99 ?

Dr Christina Amoako-Nuama, Minister for Lands and Forestry has called on chiefs and landowners to submit their proprietary plans and other land documents to the Lands Commission and the Land Title Registry to make for easy administrative resolution of land disputes.

Dr Amoako-Nuamah told a meeting of the Volta region House of chiefs that despite elaborate administrative machinery to ensure effective land delivery service to satisfy the demands of the general public, the land market in Ghana is still plagued with indiscipline.

She said there is lack of consultation, coordination and cooperation among land development agencies making lands acquired for commercial activities insecure.

She said the ministry will concentrate its efforts at implementing the National Land Policy, the Forestry Development Medium Term Plan and the National Resource Management Programme to ensure sustainable management of lands and forests.

Dr Amoako-Nuamah therefore called on traditional rulers, chiefs and landowners to desist from selling trees on their lands to chainsaw operators without the consent of forestry officers.

Alhaji Seidu Iddi, Volta Regional Minister said counter claims to lands earmarked for development projects are retarding the region's development.

"These negative tendencies would only retard our progress as a region. We must therefore eschew these tendencies in order to move forward", he advised.