Finance Minister assures diaspora of their role in Ghana’s development

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• MAPPING&SURVEY 7 years ago

  To tap their capital and knowledge...
  How exactly does the gov't intend to do this? For example, a Ghanaian in the diaspora with plans of relocating back to Ghana, along the line makes a purchase of a place of land for her r ...
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  To tap their capital and knowledge...
  How exactly does the gov't intend to do this? For example, a Ghanaian in the diaspora with plans of relocating back to Ghana, along the line makes a purchase of a place of land for her residence. She secures all the necessary documentation that shows conclusively, without any shred of doubt, she has lawfully acquired that piece of land, in keeping with her plans to at some point relocate and come and help with her knowledge and capital to advance the development of Ghana.
  So she visits and she realizes that, the piece of land she acquired has been appropriated by a businessman, a so-called big man with or without strong links to the gov't in power depriving her of her legitimate property in an unlawful manner after lawfully acquiring that property with plans to lawfully develop her property as a critical first step towards meeting her individual role towards the development of her country.
  Under such circumstances would the Finance Minister consider it a disincentive towards the contribution of the diaspora community to the development of Ghana? If he would, what does he propose should be done and what has gov't done in this regard? What recourse does he propose in the example cited above, short of going to the court, by the individual, to take ownership of her lawful legally legitimately acquired and documented property or parcel of land, given the constraints of time and the fact that, she or he cannot be around to pursue the matter in court, which is even a no-brainer considering the fact that, that parcel of land should not even have been usurped by that so-called big man in the first instance.
  Now if we have all of these happenings and the disapora community hear of a Lands Commission selling land belonging to the School of Survey and Mapping then how serious does the Finance Minister expect the diaspora community take the gov't when it speaks to engaging with that community to tap their capital and knowledge to accelerate the development of Ghana?
  One would presume a member of that community investing that capital in that piece or parcel of land, has shown enough commitment in playing their role towards the development of Ghana or? So against this backdrop, to cite this example, how exactly does the gov't intend to engage that community in a constructive manner so their role can be meaningfully concretized?

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