North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has again called for the publication of data on state land.
In a press conference in Parliament on Thursday, August 15, he gave the government a four-month ultimatum to publish the full list of public lands.
“We would like to reiterate our call to the government and insist on receiving, before the end of the year, a list of the public lands that have been transferred to the care of the President in our name, because these lands belong to us,” he said.
This renewed call for the publication of state property ownership is, in his view, due to the fact that “individual evildoers in the system are collaborating with unscrupulous elements in the government, selling public land as private land and pocketing the money.”
He described this action as terrible.
Earlier, at a press conference on Wednesday, August 14, the Minister of Agriculture denied Okudzeto Ablakwa’s allegations of land grabbing and appropriation by the state. He explained that most of the land in question had been handed over to private individuals to be developed in the interests of the state.
According to him, the Minister of Agriculture’s directive that no one should sell public land without the knowledge of the President constitutes an admission that state land is being sold.
He also urged the Minister of Agriculture not to ask him to embarrass the government by publishing the names of government officials who he said had retained shares of the profits from the sale of state lands under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.
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