Don't let foreigners own land in Ghana

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  • Joe 12 years ago

    Mr. Lawyer check your land facts- Lands in Ghana are leased and not owned. Individual lease land and only the clan owns land.

  • KWASI APONKYE 12 years ago

    AND WHERE DID UYOU GET YOUR FACTS FROM.
    EVEN CHINES AND UGANDANS OWN LANS IN GHANA.
    CLANS....WHEN DID U LAST HEAR THE WORD CLAN,

  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    pepeni can not be trusted period , in this world today when Muslims and their undercover agents disguised as Christians have the agenda to destroy all virtues and values we uphold we must be vigilant and not be deceived. Bost ...
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  • kolotsi 12 years ago

    foreigners can own land,foreigners can enter the country and do whatever they like,,mineral resources are easy to exploit by foreigners,foreigners can kill without any problem,foreigners farudulently acquire resident permit,f ...
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  • NYF 12 years ago

    Blame your chiefs who sell the lands to foreigners and the immigration and police who collect bribes and refused to enforce the laws.

  • READ y 2 dye 12 years ago

    take all the land back and give them their money. colonial times all over again. please pay attention.

  • Be Bold 12 years ago

    Joe is correct foreigners CANNOT own land outright anymore. The maximum they have is 50years lease. Maybe they use to but no more so stop insulting all the time and get your facts before you open your mouth.

  • kp 12 years ago

    well said,man.

  • Donald 12 years ago

    U are on drugs!

  • Monica 12 years ago

    Let’s get real. Do you want Ghanaians in diaspora to be kicked out from land and properties they legally bought in good faith. Keep you “ mother land” but stop tricking foreigners to invest in your fake land deals. I m ...
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  • Mattie 12 years ago

    Warning !Do not marry Ghanaians who tries to trick you into investing in any properties.

  • Ato 12 years ago

    First of all I dont believe that there is any piece of land worth the trouble going for $200 in Ghana. As for Ghanaians who buy land in the Diaspora, its got nothing to do with Ghana. Already expatriate Ghanaians have to live ...
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  • Monica 12 years ago

    Yes I am really a victim and that is a fact !

  • Kwadwo 12 years ago

    Well said!

  • Monica 12 years ago

    Well the amount mentioned is with 5 buildings and before attacking me you could figure that one out.

  • DAN 12 years ago

    certain county governments in usa post on the website for tax reason and sales, who the owner of land is..Its more dangerous to your wallet to buy a car in usa that you might not get title and plates for than house..There is ...
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  • Barima 12 years ago

    don't all your politicians go to the US and buy houses? are the land leased for home building? A boa saga no!!!

    Are they US citizens?

  • Nii Adama. Osu-Re 12 years ago

    This issue has been around for some duration now . it's good to start discussing it as this is going to affect the next generation.The problem is despite this view nothing is going to happen and the 'abuse' will continue wi ...
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  • Yaw 12 years ago

    To solve this problem, the paramount stool as well as the DCE must sign all land sales in their areas. This will prevent lazy and cruel members of families from selling land cheaply and to multiple buyers and chopping the mon ...
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  • DAN 12 years ago

    who is going to build a 10-20 story build much less a mud brick house if you don't know who the real owner is or if land revert back to first owner...This is what is killing investment in ghana both residents and commercial b ...
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  • Arnold 12 years ago

    You deserve it with your attitude. Do you want Ghanaians who have invested in Sweden, Norway and other countries should be kicked out. Build on your own land but don’t ask for investments and stay away from the West.

  • Beth 12 years ago

    You are right and we pray that God will give you life and your counsel will be implemented.

  • Kwaku K 12 years ago

    Beth, you as uninformed as Nana Oppong. Land is leased and owned.

  • Hang 12 years ago

    The laws are there but they simply do not work because of INDISCIPLINE AND THIRST FOR THIEVERY BY THE POLITICIANS, ESPECIALLY

  • Kwaku K 12 years ago

    Nana Opong should go live in his village. What kind of stupid ideas is this guy bring out? All over the world, anyone interested to by land and property is allowed to do so being either a foreigner or a local person. Developm ...
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  • Ato 12 years ago

    Kwaku K, not only are you hard of understanding but your logic is also a bit cranky. This your all over the world statement is pretty daft. Well, yes, all over the world many countries easily and happily grant visas to people ...
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  • Kwaku A. Danso 12 years ago

    I don't think this Nana Oppong knows his real estate laws well.
    If he is a Lawyer, he needs to work wiht others in Ghana to develop Real Estate Laws and not trow ideas around.
    Land trasfer and title /ownership laws have bee ...
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  • Whatever 12 years ago

    We need more of the Nana Oppongs to talk. Ghana need to rethink the way it is distributing is resources. We are selling our valuable resources for a pittance

  • JH-New York City 12 years ago

    U waited till they finished selling all of the GH lands to foreigners before coming out to say this.It started way-back in the early 1990s at Budubrum(Liberian Refugees).
    May be U were then waiting for your law certificate ...
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  • Chris 12 years ago

    Nana Oppong is not a very intelligent guy. Many poor countries has allowed foreign people to come and buy their land. Why? so that the land can be developed and productive instead of laying bare producing little or nothing.
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 12 years ago

    Can you give examples of such countries. TThose lands are leased to reputable companies but not sold to them. In Ghana, we are SELLING the lands left and right to individuals many of who are 419 scam people. The land around D ...
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  • symbiosis 12 years ago

    Chris you are not a very intelligent person either. If you were, you would know that leaving land bare and unused is better than outrightly selling it to foreigners.

    If you allow that to happen in a poor country like Ghana ...
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  • messa 12 years ago

    LAND IN GHANA IS LEASED NOT OWNED BY ANYONE,ALSO ANY PERSON CAN OWN ANY LAND ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IF HE CAN AFFORD THAT SO WHAT KIND OF TALK IS THIS

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 12 years ago

    Can anyone who can afford own land in China?

  • Donald 12 years ago

    If U have the money. Check.

  • Arnold 12 years ago

    You give the best postings ! Run for government and change Ghana.

  • nii 12 years ago

    Thank U

  • Aden 12 years ago

    RESIDE ELSEWHERE. STOP BEEN SELFISH FOLKS. WHERE ARE YOUR CHRISTIAN VALUES.

  • Yaw Amofa 12 years ago

    Frigging Chinese and Nigerians are snapping land and property everywhere, whilst foolish Ghanaians look on askance! All land must belong to Ghanaians. There is a Carribean saying : you are not part of the country if you dont ...
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  • ghanaba 12 years ago

    ALTHOUGH HE HAS MISFIRED BUT SEARCH OUT FOR THE FRUSTRATION OF EVEN A LAWYER. THE MASSIVE FRUSTRATION OF YOU AND I. GET THE SOS MESSAGE FROM A LAWYER

  • agyeman kagya 12 years ago

    ghana we have to open our eyes,how come a foreigners can take ower lands
    ?

  • WAR VETERAN 12 years ago

    WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? FOREIGNERS OWE MOST OF THE BUILDINGS AT EAST LEGON, AND MOST OF THE ESTATE HOUSES AROUND THE MOTORWAY, SO WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. FOREIGNERS OWE FACTORIES, NOT SHOPS IN GHANA SO DO NOT BE DEC ...
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  • benbelo 12 years ago

    i don't know what our so called leaders and chiefs doing in that lovely country of ours. you come to america and canada as see for yourselves. No immigrant can own a land no matter how rich you are. canadians who own land don ...
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  • Owura Kofi 12 years ago

    Nana, you being a lawyer, I hope you'd champion this issue to effect a change in our land laws. Africans don't learn any lessons. We've gone through slavery and colonization. What have we learned from those horrible experienc ...
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  • Dramani Mahama the ghanaian presiden 12 years ago

    GHANAIANS ARE FOOLS TO HAVE NDC TO AS THEIR RULING GOVERNMENT.

  • Paa George 12 years ago

    The point of the matter is, there is too much lawless in Ghana,the so-called leaders need to wake-up and do the right things.

  • kwame 12 years ago

    I guess this means that the sophisticated lawyer does not want to own land in countries he is not from,.... like the U.K. or U. S. Maybe someone should check if he is speaking out of two sides of his mouth. Nyantwomfo!

  • Nana Adwoa 12 years ago

    This process should have been in place a long time ago. Oh Ghana! Why all this waste of time and loss of property.

  • ybb 12 years ago

    i agree with oppong 100 per cent.

  • Sam 12 years ago

    You seem to be living in the past. What about Ghanaians abroad who own land. Am in Uganda and own land as well as other Ghanaians. It is on leasehold and not freehold. People must have the right to own land. I chose to stay h ...
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  • I love Nigeria 12 years ago

    he who live in glass house does not throws stone,so what about Ghanaian who stay abroad. think before u do is better the do and get yourselves in to trouble.

  • FUEL 12 years ago

    typical nigerian.talking from his anus,as usual.I guess you didn't know Ghana is a sovereign nation that can take steps 2 protect its interest?will Ghana be d first country 2 introduce such a law? I support it.Ghana is 4 Ghan ...
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  • Amazed 12 years ago

    Yes and Europe is for white Europeans ? You would be the first to cry Racism if all black people in the UK couldn’t own land and property. remark

  • Rahim 12 years ago

    Fuel, Ghana maybe the second....Liberia /Sierra Leone one of the two, did have a debate about none Africans owning land in the Country. You had to be black Africans from any part of the world none excluded to own land. and li ...
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  • Yamo 12 years ago

    What if other countries decided to do this? America for example has many thousands of Ghanaians living there. Many, many own land, I know, I am an American and know many Ghanaians there. They way Ghana is going in relation ...
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  • messa 12 years ago

    THERE IS NO BIGGER NONSENSE THEN NOT ALLOWING FORIEGN PEOPLE TO BUY LAND
    1ST IN GHANA WE DONT HAVE REAL OWNERSHIP THE LAND IS LEASED FOR 100 YEARS 2ND SUCH STUPID MOVE WILL HAVE BAD REACTION FROM THE WORLD. IF GHANA PEOPLE ...
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  • Joe Turkey 12 years ago

    They can invest in Ghana and we do - literally - beg foreigners to invest in Ghana. We do restrict the amounts they can repatriate to their home countries. Yet, they can only buy some limited assets in Ghana. Suppose they buy ...
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  • Kwadwo 12 years ago

    you're obviously not a ghanaian, so your disqualified.

  • Arnold 12 years ago

    Another arrogant Ghanaians opening his mouth.

  • EFO DODZI KPO. 12 years ago

    Massa if we foreigners dont get Farms,how can we do our Akonfirm Farms?
    The Lands are allready finished,it's left with the Few that WAYOME want to buy with his gagantuan Money!!!!!
    Ede B33 KEKE.YAA dumsoso.YAAA MAHAMA

  • THOMAS ARKAAH 12 years ago

    I totally agree with the suggestion that NO foreigner should be allowed to own land in Ghana. In nigeria no foreigner iscan own land. This has been a federal Law for ages. It is folly to allaw foreigners to own land. This sug ...
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  • THOMAS ARKAAH 12 years ago

    FYES.FOREIGNERS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE LAND OWNERS IN GHANAINIGERIA NO FOREIGNERS CAN OWN LAND.

  • Rahim 12 years ago

    Hi, i am from Jamaica, i agree with the none foreigners owning land in Ghana and Africa. But this should not include people from Africa and the Caribbean. In India foreigners can,t own farm land and Agriculture land it is tot ...
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