A former presidential staffer and researcher Prince-Derek Adjei, is reporting that there is a new wave of state lands being looted by officials and cronies of the Akufo-Addo government and that the government is using the supposed redevelopment of the national capital to camouflage the theft.
In a write-up made up of somewhat coded messages, Mr. Adjei who is also a former Deputy Director of the National Youth Council says that persons in government want to use the proposed new Accra City Redevelopment Project to loot state lands.
“The proponents of the New Accra City Project will give clarity to why the Ghana Armed Forces are being used as land guards to forcibly steal and build on land that Government has not acquired as required by law and the constitution. The relocation of some military installation on the stolen prime lands near the illegal Military Cemetery is to pave way for stealing hundreds of acres of Prime Lands in the name of the Military by some individuals,” he writes.
The new Accra city project is a project to re-structure Accra to bring it up to international city standards.
Based on this, some district and municipal assemblies have directly gotten involved in the commercial demarcation of lands for the development of estates.
“The Defence Minister must speak directly to this relocation and confirm if indeed the Lands Minister wrote to him to stop the Military developing the disputed Kpletso Lands…The Lands Minister must speak directly to this relocation and confirm if indeed he wrote to the Defence Minister to stop the Military developing the disputed Kpletso Lands,” Prince Adjei charged.
He points out that in the past, people in public positions of trust, including former Chief Justices Georgina Wood and Sophia Akuffo, have looted state lands with Madam Wood eventually returning hers while Sophia Akuffo has still kept hers.