Grabbing of State Lands by NPP Gov’t

Monitoring Desk Report

Though in the know that the Law of Trust debars trustees from benefiting from properties they hold on behalf of, and in trust for people, Mr. Frank Agyekum, the spokesperson for former President, John Agyekum Kufuor, strangely ignores this astute law to the detriment of the good people of Ghana.

Speaking on Radio Gold, an Accra-based station last Tuesday 12th June, 2012, Mr. Frank Agyekum, who was not known for goofs and greed, has suddenly been taken over by excessive trait of the aforementioned features, seemingly inherited from the NPP’s spin doctors.

Defending the indefensible, even though, Frank Agyekum hinted that he has no knowledge of the purchase of the 1.4 acre land at Residency Link at Ridge Residential Area in Kumasi for GH¢4, 000 by his boss (Kufuor), he did justify the acquisition of the land by his boss.

Obviously protecting his job, Mr. Frank Agyekum, to the surprise of Ghanaians, asserted that once his employer went through the due process to acquire the above-mentioned property, there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.

According to him, there would be a problem with the purchase of the land in question, if it had not gone through the due process; totally ridiculing the provision as specified in Chapter Twenty-One; Article 257 (1) of the 1992 Constitution that has clearly vested in the President, the obligation to hold in trust, and on behalf of the people of Ghana, all public lands and natural resources in Ghana.

Asked if he knew that Nana Akufo-Addo had rejected similar offer in the past, he said that it was dependent on the individual.

Mr. Agyekum says, his boss saw the offer as a glorious opportunity, and as such, did not reject it.

However, intelligence gathered within the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has it that, the top hierarchy of the party is not happy with the submission of Nana Akomea, in his attempt to justify the grabbing of state lands and properties by NPP apparatchiks.

Credible information also has it that, some party elders were not happy at all with former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s inordinate quest for state assets.

Horrifying to them, was the price at which he grabbed the said land at the Ridge Residential Area in Kumasi.

In fact, the ma-te mehu party in Ghana would have, by now, been selling that part of the Atlantic ocean in Ghana's territory to themselves had the good people of Ghana retained it in power in 2008.

Below is part of the list of the people who took part in the state-land grab in Kumasi to the detriment of Ghanaians

ITEM

ALLOTEES

PLOT NO.

LOCATION

ACREAGE

FEES PAID (GH¢)

TITLE POSITON

YEAR OF ALLOCATION 1. Banima Kwaku Duea 4 Residency Link Ridge Res Area Premium 1,000.00 Lease 2004 2. Asiedu Poku/Micheal Adubofour & Louisa Adubofour 020 Circular Road ridge Res Area 0.31 Premium 800.00 Lease 2004 3. John Agyekum Kuffour 8 Residency Link Ridge Res Area 1.42 Premium 4,000.00 Lease 2004 4. Nana Kwabena Oduro & Adjoa Birago 026 Circular Rd Ridge Res 0.39 Premium Lease 2004 5. Sampson Kwaku Boafo 4 Acacia Close ridge Res Area 0.42 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2004 6. Prof. Yaw Boafo 2 Acacia Close ridge Res Area 0.46 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2004 7. Alhaji Hamidu Ibrahim Baryeh 022 Circular Road ridge Res Area 0.36 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2004 8. Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani 1 Acacia Close ridge Res Area 0.33 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2004 9. Charles Osei 07 New Lands Ave. Ridge Res Area 0.46 Premium 5,000.00 Lease 2004 10. k. Owusu-Poku 013 Circular Road ridge Res Area 0.35 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2004 11. Urban Roads - Danyame - - - - 2004 12. Cecelia Appaigyei 1 Militia Ave Ridge Res Area 0.28 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2004 13. Baffour Owusu Asare Amankwa V/Kwaku 2 Militia Ave Ridge Res Area 0.28 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2006 21. De Joyce Dontwi 02 Militia Ave Ridge Res Area - - - - 2006 14. Anthony Gambrah 5 Militia Ave Ridge Res Area 0.31 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2006 15. Cecilia Dapaah 7 Militia Ave Ridge Res Area 0.28 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2006 16. Akwasi Biahene 9 Militia Ave Ridge Res Area 0.29 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2006 17. k. Owusu - Akvaw 1 Militia Close Ridge Res Area 0.24 Premium 1.000.00 Lease 2006 18. Nana Kwame Kyeretwie/Akwasi Premepeh 2 Militia Close Ridge Res Area 0.29 Premium 1.000.00 Lease