Developers urged to regularise documents on Tuba lands
The Nii Arde Nkpa Family of the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council has called on developers who, without authority, went ahead to put up structures on a stretch of land at Tuba to take steps to regularise their documents.
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According to the family, developers risked having their structures demolished if they failed to regularise their documents.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, Nii Ayinsah Sasraku III, the Dzasetse and Head of the Nii Arde Nkpa Family, said in 1979, the government, by an Executive Instrument, acquired a parcel of land covering approximately 5,530 acres from the family for irrigation purposes.
Speaking under the authority of Oblempon Nii Kojo Ababio V, the President of the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council, Nii Sasraku said the acquisition was made on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Irrigation Development Authority.
According to him, the government’s failure to utilise the whole land for the purpose for which it was acquired, coupled with the non-payment of compensation, gave rise to indiscriminate encroachment on the land.
He added that some of the encroachers had also started selling portions of the land to developers.
“As a result, the preacquisition owners of the land made several petitions for the reversal of the acquisition. The government finally came up with an Executive Instrument in 2013 to return some portions of the land to the allodial owners,” Nii Sasraku explained.
That, he said, had made it imperative for the family, in collaboration with the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council, to take steps to get developers on the land to regularise their documents.
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He, therefore, called on the developers to contact the family or the Lands Secretariat of the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council for the necessary documentation.
Nii Sasraku further asked the government to pay compensation for the parcels of land it had retained in the interest of the state to the allodial owners.
Present at the conference were Nii Ayi Krotia I, Ngleshie Alata Norya Mantse, Nii Ofei III, Kokrobite Mantse; Nii Yartey Obedru I, Korle Gonno Norya Mantse and Nii Tetteh Braima Agbo III, Tuba Mantse.