Security analyst Adib Sani has described it as troubling and an indictment for the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to resort to the services of landguards or any limited liability company to reclaim or protect their land.
He made this statement in reaction to the revelation made by the Chief Director of the Lands Ministry, Professor Patrick Agbesinyale when he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.
The PAC was shocked when the Chief Director revealed that they Lands Ministry and even the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Armed Forces contract a popular landguard ‘Dzato’ and his firm Aynok Holdings to reclaim their encroached lands.
“What is their modus operandi? What is it that they can do that the police cannot do?” Adid quizzed the rationale behind contracting ‘Dzato’ and his Aynok Holdings.
He told Johnnie Hughes on 3FM Sunrise that guarding lands could be very bloody and deadly. So it beats imagination how a limited liability company could do land reclamation. Because private entities are not allowed to wield guns so I am wondering how they do their job.
“It is a very dangerous precedent that is being set by the Lands Commission.
“If the report we are receiving is anything to go by, it is safe to say that there is a state complicity in this land guard menace, and it is also safe to say that the Land Ministry is a crime scene. I know and we all know that any time there is a land reclamation exercise, the police or the military is heavily involved because of the dangers that are associated with it so it just doesn’t make sense” the security analyst bemoaned.
Adib Sani stressed the need to deal with the structural issues of people finding it difficult to register their lands and the undue delays in settling land disputes, citing there are some land cases that have been in court for forty years.
He called for a multidimensional approach to solve the landguardism that has been a menace to society.
By Samuel Afriyie Owusu|3news.com|Ghana
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