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G.E.S. FIGHTS FOR STOLEN LANDS
WEDNESDAY, 6TH APRIL, 2005 -- The Ghana Education Service is taking steps to retrieve all stolen school lands and protect the rest from being encroached upon. Some of the encroachers have been arraigned before court and the GES has filed suits seeking injunctions on some of the disputed lands.
Also, it has decided to construct fence walls around all school lands. Mr Michael Nsowah, acting director general of GES, disclosed this to the paper when commenting on a demonstration by students of St. John’s Grammar School at Achimota, against the encroachment on their school land.
Mr Nsowah expressed grave concern at the rate at which lands belonging to second cycle institutions in the country are being encroached upon, mentioning especially those in the Greater Accra Region.
Some of the affected schools in the region are Odorgonno Secondary School, Accra Training College, Saint John’s Grammar School, Nungua Secondary and Christian Methodist Secondary School. “If this trend of affairs continues it will affect the schools’ development and expansion programmes and in future students would have to travel outside the region to pursue their education.” Mr Nsowah stressed.
“The most worrying aspect is that, the act is being perpetrated by some elites in the society with the connivance of family heads from whom the lands were acquired by the state,” he added.
Mr Nsowah explained that school lands were acquired legally and in all cases compensation was paid to the family heads or traditional rulers.
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