Let’s work together towards efficient land management - Sersah-Johnson

Traditional rulers and other stakeholders in land management have been urged to work together to bring down land disputes.

Mr Kweku Sersah-Johnson of the Ghana Land Administration Project (LAP) said every effort must be made to ensure a more efficient land management system to aid national development.

He said developers and investors would feel comfortable to put their monies in areas where they are assured of the safety of their investment.

Mr Sersah-Johnson said this when speaking at a community outreach programme organized by LAP for chiefs, assembly members, town and country planning officials and other land stakeholders in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality at Ejisu.

He expressed concern about the increasing land litigation, especially, over stool lands, and advised developers to use legal process to acquire lands for their projects.

The programme provided the platform for stakeholders in land management to be updated on the phase-two of the LAP which aims at consolidating and strengthening land administration and management systems for efficient and transparent service delivery.

This is being done through reviews and enactment of appropriate land administration laws and regulations, improvement of the deeds and titles registration systems in terms of security and reduction of turn-around time for service delivery.

Nana Kwampong Abboah, Ashanti Regional Lands Officer, entreated the people to support the LAP-2 since it would improve business and service delivery.

The project would provide up-to-date maps and other spatial products, to develop the infrastructure for collecting and sharing data and information, to be used as inputs directly or indirectly in land administration.