By Dominic Adoboli, GNA
Juapong, June 19, GNA - Mr Richard Collins Arku, North Tongu District Chief Executive (DCE), has partly blamed some Traditional Authorities and other land owners for the stalling planned development projects.
He accused them of refusing to release parcels of land cited for community projects to uplift the wellbeing of the people.
Mr Arku was reacting to comments at a Public Accountability Forum organised by the Assembly to seek views of the people and help chart the course of the Assembly's plans and work at Juapong.
Mr Arku told the people the Assembly, for that matter Government, had no land and could only help advance development on the goodwill of land owners who understood the scheme of the game to release land.
The DCE expressed worry that no importance was attached to even educational, health, water and sanitation projects that were meant for the wellbeing of the community members by the litigant leaders, who were supposed to be holding the lands in trust for the people - women and children particularly.
He said for lack of time, Government projects were sometimes transferred to other communities, whose leaders understood development and readily offering land.
According to him, employment and job creation lagged behind population, resulting in unemployment, rising poverty and want in rural areas particularly, leading to the regular rural-urban drift by the youth for non-existent greener pastures.
Mr Arku, appealed to Traditional Leaders and landowners to readily make land available for development in their communities, said sometimes NGOs have to fold up and go.
He urged the youth to help their leaders understand the issues.
"Litigation and refusal by land owners to release land for investment is partly the bane of the development drawback we are in", he said.
He reminded the people of the killing of a Zimbabwean farmer on the land he acquired for his farms some years ago, denying the opportunity of employment for some youth there, aside revenue for the development work.
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