Traditional councils to endorse documents of sold lands – Omanhene

Okofo Katakyi Nyakoh Eku X, Omanhene of Nyakrom Traditional Council, says henceforth documents on sale of lands by heads of family and chiefs would be endorsed solely by the traditional councils to serve as principal witness to avoid legal tussles.

He said the move was to streamline issues concerning sale of lands by heads of family and others to curb alarming land disputes in the Central region.

The Omanhene said the Regional House of Chiefs decided that all lands belonged to families except those vested in government.

Okofo Katakyi Nyakoh Eku made this known when he addressed the last traditional Council meeting of the year 2019 to take stock of the past year and adopt new strategies ahead towards 2020 development of Agonaman at Nyakrom.

He said the land disputes in the Central regional were alarming and House of Chiefs, therefore, decided to adopt strategies that would help to reduce land matters.

The Omanhene said the Chiefs in the region decided to bring land matters to the barest minimum to enhance development in the various traditional councils to promote human development.

Okofo Katakyi Nyakoh Eku stated that the Central region needed to attract foreign investors, saying that if there were land disputes lingering in one particular traditional Council, it would be difficult to get expected investments to create jobs and wealth.

The Omanhene told chiefs and heads of families that the lands were for families and not for them alone to sell without consent of the chiefs and family heads.

He said that it is obvious that chiefs were not owners of the land and it was for the entire family including; heads of family and Queen mothers to ensure peace and stability.

He said the sale of lands should be made transparent to avert conflicts and legal tussles on families and traditional Councils.

The Omanhene said plans were advanced to organise training workshops for chiefs, Queen mothers, and other traditional Staffs to enable them play their expected roles to promote development of the traditional councils

The End of year Traditional Council Meeting was attended by Agona West Municipal Chief Executive, Mrs Justina Marigold Assan, Mr Dennis Armah Frempong, Agona District Chief Executive, Mr Bernard Joe Appiah, Management Consultant, Mr Yawson Otoo, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ikson Properties Agency Limited.

It was also attended by all Divisional Chiefs, Queenmothers in the Nyakrom Traditional Council, Heads of Family, chief Linguists, Heads of Department, Police Commanders and other Heads of Security Capos, officers and Men of Ghana Police Service.

Mr Joe Appeah, Management Consultant urged the people in Agona West and Agona East to use networks to connect with people holding positions in government from both Agona and other parts of the country to bring developmental programmes into their areas

He urged politicians to tackle issues concerning the youth in order to avoid Sakawa and other social vices.

Mr Appeah said not all Ghanaians could join political parties and urged them to lobbym people occupying high positions to get more developmental programmes.

Mrs Justina Assan, Agona West MCE enumerated number of development projects executed during her three years in office in the Municipality and added that the Meet the Press series organised by Agona West Assembly helped to tout the visionary leader and courageous President Akufo-Addo’s administration.

The MCE in response to comments made by Omanhene of the alleged none usage of MP’s common fund, Mrs Cynthia Morison stated that MP started using the fund to undertake developmental projects in the Constituency.

Mr Armah Frempong, the DCE for Agona East said the Assembly was able to execute all flagships programmes of the government including; planting for food and jobs, planting for export and rural Development, 1D 1 F policy were implemented to create jobs and wealth among the youth.

Mr Yawson Otoo, CEO of Ikson called on the citizens of Agona both home and abroad to pool their resources together for the development of the area.

The CEO assured the Chiefs and the people in both Agona West and Agona East that he was ready to use his resources to network more than 100 citizens who were well to do to invest in the development of Agona.