Queens schooled on land project
As part of the measures of addressing litigation on land tenure system, officials of the Land Administrative Project (LAP) have organised a workshop in Kumasi for selected queen mothers from the Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo and Volta regions.
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A total of 300 queen mothers from the selected regions attended the workshop which aimed at educating them on the LAP with the view to keeping them abreast of issues pertaining to the project.
The workshop, according to LAP, was also meant to sensitise the queen mothers for them to play key roles in land administration with the view to encouraging members of their respective communities to register their landed properties to curb litigations associated with land acquisition.
Addressing the participants during the workshop, the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Ms Barbara Serwaa Asamoah, assured of government’s commitment to redefine cultures, practices and customs which serve as barriers and belittle women on land issues.
“Government is committed to the affirmative action aimed at the elimination of racial, gender and geographical inequalities in the desire to ensure the achievement of sustained economic growth and shared development for social equity” she noted.
She said the LAP was part of the interventions designed to provide access to land for women with the view to empowering them economically and also to promote gender equity and equality in society.
“It is unfortunate that the control and ownership of land largely remain in the domain of males, suggesting the preference for male leadership, authority and control over family and community resources” she bemoaned.
“Government demands of women to be more involved in the administration of land to ensure that the future of the country is not jeopardised” she assured, adding “the era of not involving queen mothers and female chiefs in land administration and management in Ghana should, therefore, be a thing of the past.”
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Ms Asamoah expressed the hope that traditional authorities would be encouraged by the LAP to set up land secretariats in their respective jurisdictions with the view to recording and documenting all transactions of land issues.
She also urged them to motivate land owners to register their interests and rights in land as well as keeping inventories of land and parcels they hold.
“We are also undertaking customary boundary demarcations in customary land secretariat catchment areas aimed at preventing land disputes and conflicts, and helping to avoid clashes between communities and traditional authorities over boundaries” she announced.