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MiDA inaugurates Systems for land
measuring and documentation
Awutu Bawjiase (C/R), Sept. 18, Ghanadot/GNA — The
Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has launched the
first of the Pilot Programmes for the Area-wide Registration
of Rural Land Rights in the Awutu-Senya District at Awutu
Bawjiase.
The MiDA also inaugurated a Continuously Operating Receiver
System (CORS) station to collect Global Positioning Systems
(GPS) Data for the survey for farm parcels project.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, Mr Martin Eson-Benjamin
in his inaugural address said the equipment was with a
Robotic Total Station for surveying the boundaries of the
parcels themselves, in a fast, accurate and efficient way.
Mr Eson-Benjamin said the land Tenure facilitation Activity
under the Ghana Program’s Agricultural Project would utilize
a total of 10.6 US million dollars in the Program’s three
intervention zones.
“For this reason, farming communities in the Awutu-Senya,
Savelugu-Nanton and Kwahu North districts would benefit from
the Pilot Project, adding that these districts would be
declared Pilot Registration District before Title
Registration begins”.
He said major challenges in Land Administration in Ghana
have included the lack of formal documentation of customary
Holding, Uncertainly about the boundaries of private and
other land holdings.
Others were conflicting Records of Land rights and long
delays in negotiating and registering acquisition and
transfer of Land rights which have hampered growth in the
nation’s Agriculture sector, he said.
The Chief Executive Officer said it was important to stress
that sound agricultural development in Ghana would be
greatly enhanced by making access to land more efficiently
and secure, while preserving secured tenure for local
communities.
Mr Eson-Benjamin said the MiDA was investing in a Land Title
Registry at Winneba to serve the needs of all people who
would be inclined to survey and register their lands and
also prevent people from traveling to Accra or Cape Coast to
register their lands.
The District Chief Executive for Awutu-Senya, Mr Solomon
Abbam Quaye in an address read for him expressed regret that
most communities in the area had sold greater proportions of
their farm lands to commercial pineapple farmers.
He said this was good for the local economy, but not good
enough for the youth of tomorrow, adding that children in
the area would grow up without having any land to farm on.
Nai Ncharkey Okine VII, Adontehene of Awutu Traditional Area
who chaired the function, hoped that the project would help
reduce land litigation and conflicts in the area.
He gave the assurance that chiefs in the Awutu Traditional
Area will co-operate with officials of the project to ensure
its success.
Mr Martin Eson-Benjamin assisted by Nai Ncharkey Okine and
Naade Dodi Akaabi, Queenmother of the Traditional Council,
cut the tape to inaugurate the project.
GNA
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