The Managing Director of the Tema Development Company, Courage Makafui Nunekpeku, has disclosed that a protocol officer of the company has had his contract revoked after an investigation found him culpable of selling a public plot of land to his wife for GH¢2,000.

According to the Managing Director, the said officer, who also happens to be the Tema Central Constituency Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, sold the land originally allocated for the construction of a public toilet at Tema Community 5 to his wife.

“The NPP Tema Central Constituency Secretary sold that place to the wife at the cost of GH¢2,000. The documents are with me, I can make them available. When I went into the matter, I said no way; I engaged the woman and I terminated the contract.

“…I am not grabbing any land, I am just doing the right thing for the Ghanaian. I terminated that contract and now the place is for the state to be used as a public toilet,” he is quoted in a report by citinewsroom.com on Thursday, September 4, 2025.

President Mahama lifts ban on sale of state lands after reforms

Makafui Nunekpeku said the recovery forms part of TDC’s ongoing efforts to recover illegally acquired lands to support infrastructure and housing development in the country.

Meanwhile, President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, announced the lifting of the temporary freeze on the sale of state lands, which was put in place in January 2025.

The ban was implemented to allow for a comprehensive review of the existing land administration system. The review aimed to identify weaknesses and implement reforms to combat mismanagement and illegal sales of state lands.

According to President Mahama, the eight-month suspension yielded valuable insights into systemic weaknesses and highlighted necessary reforms.

Speaking during the inauguration of the newly-reconstituted Lands Commission, the president stressed that the lifting of the ban does not signal a return to "business as usual," but a new, disciplined era of land management.

President Mahama orders audit into all state lands leased between 2017, 2024

He noted that all future land transactions will be held to transparent, digitally verified processes and be subject to stricter oversight.

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