Stop building on Kubekrom lands - Kpone Katamanso DCE
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kpone Katamanso in the Greater Accra Region, Alhaji Antieye Tetteh, has ordered the immediate discontinuation of all construction works at Kubekrom Number 2, a community in the district.
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The DCE gave the order at a meeting with representatives of the Senior Staff Association of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), who had met him and other technical officers of the assembly on the activities of some individuals who were said to be harassing staff who had invested in land in the said area.
According to the DCE, the assembly has not granted permit for construction works in the said area, and warned those who are building without permit to stop before their investment becomes waste because the assembly will descend heavily on them.
Alhaji Tetteh further called on the land owners to seek legal processes to ward off encroachers on the lands they had sold to Graphic and other individuals.
Negotiations
Briefing the DCE, the representatives of the association, led by Mr S. K. Botwey, disclosed that in 2008, the association began negotiations with the Moses Nii Anang and Oko Odai families of Kubekro Number 2 for the purchase of the land for its members and finally entered into an agreement with the two families in 2009.
He emphasised that before committing themselves, the association, through the land owners’ surveyor, did a search to determine the authenticity of the ownership of the land and based on that went ahead to pay the owners.
Harassment
Mr Botwey said a total of 150 plots was secured through a hire-purchase arrangement, after which four big sign posts were mounted on the boundary of the land area.
He said in recent times, some members of staff of the company who visited the plot to carry out development works were harassed by some individuals wielding guns and ordering them to vacate the land in spite of the fact that the land had been duly acquired.
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The sign posts, he added, had also been demolished by the encroachers.
Mr Botwey said considering the danger this latest round of harassment was posing to members of the association, they were appealing to the DCE to intervene.
Confirmation of sale of land
The Assembly Member for the area, Alhaji Iddrisu Kojo Annan Adjetey, who facilitated the sale of the land, confirmed that the Moses Nii Anang and Oko Odai families sold the land to staff of Graphic. However, some imposters parading themselves as owners of the land were harassing them.