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Brong Ahafo holds land reform forum
Sunyani, July 24, Ghanadot/GNA - The first ever Brong-Ahafo
Regional land forum to collate public and stakeholder views
for the proposed Consolidated Land Act on Monday opened in
Sunyani.
The consultative approach is to ensure that the land act
when passed would have reflected views from across the
length and breath of the country.
Mr. Sandy Mensah Brong-Ahafo Regional, Land Administrator
Project Coordinator, said plans were underway for the
formation of an amalgamation of the land sector agencies to
operate under a new land commission.
This is in response to government's commitment to addressing
the many problems confronting land administration and
management.
Mr. Mensah said the proposal for the establishment of a new
lands commission had culminated in the drafting of a unified
code of land laws ranging from planning, administration and
management, surveying titling and registration.
Nana Kwadwo Kwakye, Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister,
said the new law must be made to prescribe sanctions against
those who flout development, control and planning
regulations.
He appealed to the participants at the forum to come out
with guidelines and directives as to how district assemblies
should apply stool land revenue.
Mrs. Mary Agyapong, Dean of Students Affairs of the Sunyani
Polytechnic, said there was the need for the country to
adopt a land policy that provided optimum benefit for the
people.
She said both customary and formal tenure system had
marginalized women's rights and stressed the need to improve
land rights for women not only through gender awareness but
also changes in the constitutional reforms in the marriage
and inheritance laws.
GNA
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