‘Collaboration needed to discourage land litigation’
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Elite Kingdom Investments and Consulting Limited, Dr Robert Kwao Djangmah, has called for a collaborative effort among traditional leaders, the government and landowners to discourage land litigation in the country.
According to him, a lot of the cases of land litigation across the country have come about as a result of the lack of collaboration among such institutions.
He cited instances where land guards had taken the law into their own hands and committed atrocities.
Dr Djangmah was speaking at the first-ever Republican Lectures organised by ZTV, a private television station based in Accra.
The lecture was on the theme, “Adopting domestic innovation and the local materials to correct the housing deficit in Ghana.”
Strategic partners
Dr Djangmah indicated that traditional authorities were key partners in the development of the nation, since they were custodians of the land.
He added that if chiefs played their roles as strategic partners, it would help in the development of the country.
He said the enstoolment of chiefs in communities was very crucial and the inability to do so could result in a lot of mishaps.
Sale of lands
He stated that there had been instances where certain individuals in communities had sold lands without the prior approval of the respective chief.
Such acts, he said, were criminal, and stated that the perpetrators should be dealt with.
He further called on chiefs to engage the services of competent surveyors for the demarcation of their lands to avoid litigation and other mishaps.
Laterite as a building material
For his part, a Research Scientist and Chief Executive Offices (CEO) of Uniclean Ghana Limited, Dr Mathew Narh Tettey, said there was the need for Ghanaians to value what they produced.
To help resolve the housing deficit in Ghana, he opined that there was the need to adopt laterite as a building material for the construction of affordable houses.
Dr Tettey also suggested that Ghana should learn from other countries such as the USA that had adopted wood buildings as one of its options.
In her address, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Hannah Tetteh, called for private sector involvement to help resolve the housing deficit in the country.
