‘Ensure due diligence before appending signatures to site plans’
The Executive Secretary of the Ghana Lands Commission, Dr Odame Larbi, has urged licensed surveyors to ensure due diligence before appending their signatures to site plans.
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He stressed the need for surveyors to uphold the integrity of the profession to reduce the negative tendencies that they faced in the discharge of their work.
Dr Larbi made the call when he swore in 15 newly qualified licensed surveyors at a ceremony in Accra.
New Surveyors
They are Musah Haruna, Mr Emmanuel Acquah, Mr Rhoden Dogbe, Dr Anthony Ako Adjei and Dr Isaac Dadzie.
Others are Mr Saeed Abdulai Zakaria, Miss Florence Lamptey, Mr Victor Ankobia, Dr Yaw Poku-Gyamfi and Mr Isaac Bleboo.
The rest are Mr Benjamin Beny Acquah, Mr Padraic Birch Freeman, Mr Gustav K. Asamoah, Mr Atsrim Felix Ferguson, Mr Michael Agyare and Mr Eric Ofori Okai Darko.
He said surveyors played a key role in land administration and asked them to deliver efficient services, while cooperating with the commission to achieve its mandate.
Reforms
Dr Larbi added that the commission was currently undergoing some reforms to ensure that documents were processed on time and efficiently.
He encouraged the surveyors to identify themselves as partners of the commission, since their activities would be rigorously monitored by the commission.
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Revoke Licences
The Deputy Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, Mr Jones Ofori-Boadu, warned that the commission would not hesitate to revoke the licences of surveyors who flouted the rules and regulations.
"Land is an asset which is unmovable and the falsification of measurement will not augur well for licensed surveyors," he said.
The acting Director of the Survey and Mapping Division of the commission, Mr Wilson Kwasi Opoku, expressed the hope that the newly licensed surveyors would work hard to redeem the image of the profession and the commission.
The Member of Parliament for Ahafo Ano South, Mr Francis Adabo, who is also a licensed surveyor, appealed to the new surveyors to form a consortium and go international.
He also urged them to abide by their code of ethics and terms of reference to protect the image of the profession.