Parliament demands records of public lands from Lands Minister

The Government Assurance Committee of Parliament has directed the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor, to make available the records of all the public lands from 1993 to date before the end of the 8th Parliament.  Advertisement

The committee said that would help address the issues of government lands being registered as private lands, as well as the alleged fraudulent activities happening at the Lands Commission.  “The only way to forestall this is to put the data together. I believe there are elements at the Lands Commission who don’t want Ghanaians to have this data, so that they will continue with these illegal practices where public lands will be sold as private lands, the Chairman of the committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, stated. 

The committee gave the directive when Mr Jinapor appeared before it yesterday to answer some questions. The directive came as a result of the minister’s failure to furnish the committee with the data on all the public lands, citing the lack of capacity of the Lands Commission to put together such data within a short time frame.

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