The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has renewed calls for publication of data on State lands.
Addressing the press in Parliament on Thursday, August 15, he gave government a 4-month ultimatum to publish the full list of public lands.
“We want to renew our demand on this government that before the close of the year, we will insist on receiving the list of public lands vested in the care of the President on our behalf because these lands belong to us,” he said.
This renewed call for state lands publication, in his view is because “individuals, miscreants in the system are collaborating with unscrupulous elements in government and selling public lands as private lands and pocketing the money.”
He described this action as terrible.
This comes after the Lands Minister, at a press conference on Wednesday, August 14, in response to Okudzeto Ablakwa’s accusations of land grabbing and state capture, rejected the allegations, stating that most of the lands in question were handed to private individuals to develop in the interest of the state.
According to him, the directive from the Lands Minister that no one should sell public lands without the knowledge of the president is an admission that State lands are being sold.
He also challenged the Lands Minister not to dare him to expose government by publishing names of government officials he alleged took shares of profits from state lands sold under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.
Source: myjoyonline.com
