CATHEDRAL PROJECT LAND: Registered in the name of Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng and others…

 

PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO PROVES THAT TALK IS CHEAP.

President Akufo-Addo promised to resolve all outstanding Greater Accra Regional Lands and Chieftaincy issues when he addressed the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs five (5) weeks to the 7th December 2020 election and shortly before his Lands Minister, Kwaku Asoma-Cheremeh articulated government’s promised to return the Kpletso Lands to the La Stool.

“Let me also indicate to you my commitment to establishing a Committee, God willing, early next year, to take a comprehensive look at the issue to do with the compulsory acquisition of lands by Government, its consequences and the possible restoration of lands to their allodial owners.”

These were the words of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 29th October 2020, when he addressed the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, as part of his tour of the Region.

Addressing the House, President Akufo-Addo further stated that “the Committee will make appropriate recommendations for the decision of Government. With a few weeks to the holding of the elections, the setting up of this Committee this year may not be feasible.”

In December, 2022 President Akufo-Addo urged the Lands Commission to go fully-digitized at the national Lands Conference to resolve the humongous Land Looting and chaos under his watch while bemoaning wrongful and multiple sale of lands by chiefs and people without authority, tagged as ‘land guards’ who sadly include the Ghana Armed Forces at Kpletso near the illegal Military Cemetery.

The indiscriminate stealing of Prime La Lands including the controversial Civil Aviation Lands, the Trade Fair Redevelopment Project Land and the Kpletso Land which is being illegally annexed by the Ghana Armed Forces are directly traceable to President Akufo-Addo and his appointees, friends and family.

The Land Act, 2020 (Act 1036), which President Akufo-Addo assented to on 23rd December 2020, according to him “revises, harmonises and consolidates laws on land to ensure sustainable land administration and management, as well as effective and efficient land tenure systems.”

Unfortunately President Akufo-Addo did not follow due process, the Law nor the Constitution of Ghana in expropriation of the Land used for the Cathedral Project.

The unfathomable destruction of many Climate-Asset Trees and rushed demolition of private, diplomatic and State property including newly constructed buildings to pave way for Akufo-Addo’s Cathedral Project has come at very great cost…

The disregard of the Law, the Constitution and Court injunctions in the quest “to build the Cathedral at sll cost” must be investigated and culprits punished.

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS:

Justice Sophia Akuffo [Chief Justice] must confirm or deny the allegation made by top officials of the defunct National Cathedral namely Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng [Secretariat] and Dr. Paul Opoku-Mensah [Executive Director] on national television [Joy News TV] and Radio [Joy FM & Asempa FM] that then Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo gave “JUDICIAL APPROVAL” to the Cathedral Project Secretariat to commence construction work despite the existence of an injunction.

It will be recalled an injunction was filed by Lawyer Bright Akwetey challenging the President’s donation of the Prime Osu Mantse Layout Land for a private project occasioned by his personal pledge to his god.

President Akufo-Addo never issued an Executive Instrument to acquire the Lands for the Cathedral Project but altered the purpose by fiat and handed over the Land to a private entity – NATIONAL CATHEDRAL GHANA.

Samuel Abu Jinapor [Lands Minister] and Godfred Yeboah Dame [Attorney General] must explain how on 18th July 2019 “NATIONAL CATHEDRAL GHANA” was incorporated to own property of the Cathedral Project including the illegally annexed PRIME OSU MANTSE LAYOUT LAND and the confiscated illegally felled EXPENSIVE ROSEWOOD that Samuel Abu Jinapor presented to Rev. Kusi-Boateng and Dr. Paul Opoku-Mensah of the Cathedral Secretariat.

It will be recalled that Archbishop Dag Heward-Mills wrote about the Government-Led malfeasance and Code of Silence by a ‘Clique of the Clergy’ within the Cathedral Board of Trustees before resigning from the Corruption-plagued Cathedral Board of Trustees.

The arbitrariness with which the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government ‘illegally acquires’ and disposes of Lands acquired by the State must be stopped.

The Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government’s penchant for using Armed men in military uniforms is alarming as the LANDGUARDISM [e.g. Kpletso and Agbogbloshie] metamorphose into DEATH SQUADS [e.g. Ejura and Bawku] and god-knows what next…

EJURA COMPENSATION PAYMENT to the victims of the Military brutalities can be considered as FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE, which is also discriminatory as other victims of similar military brutalities have not recieved any compensation.

KPLETSO VICTIMS OF MILITARY BRUTALITIES have had no official acknowledgement from Government except the personal donation by Hon. Dominic Nitiwul [Defence Minister] to support the funeral of one (1) of the three (3) victims of the 15th April, 2021 Kpletso Shooting and Assault by armed men in Ghana Army uniforms meted out to unarmed civilians including journalists and citizens of La protesting the annexation of La Lands by Minister Landguards.

WA MILITARY BEATING SPREE VICTIMS were apologised to by President Akufo -Addo who flew with the Defence and Interior Ministers together with the Military High Command to beg for mutineering soldiers to be forgiven by the Chiefs and People of Wa, instead of publicly punishing the mutineers to deter others ultimately encouraging the ongoing impunity by the Military.

AGBOGBLOSHIE LAND RECLAMATION was funded by private business friends of the Greater Accra Regional Minister, and was undertaken by armed State Security personnel dominated by the Military in rambo-style amid gunshots and assault of civilians.

The Sports Minister [Mustapha Ussif] confessed that government had no plan for the Agbogbloshie Land which was acquired for the Youth and Sports Ministry, when answering an Urgent Question in Parliament posed by the Ranking Member on Youth and Sports [Hon. Kobby Woyome].

The Greater Accra Regional Minister [Hon. Henry Quartey] purported to allocate portions of the reclaimed AGBOGBLOSHIE LAND to the President through his advisor on Health [Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare] who intimated to the press that the President was the happiest man alive upon hearing the “GOOD NEWS” of being given a piece of the Agbogbloshie land for his stalled Agenda 111 Hospital project.

President Akufo-Addo who is a Lawyer, knows how the the State through the President can by Executive Instrument or exercise of Eminent Domain acquire land anywhere in Ghana for a particular stated public purpose such as Hospitals so why would he rely on a Regional Minister to illegally allocate him land for a purpose other than the original stated purpose of acquisition?

President must ensure that the STATUS OF ALL STATE ACQUIRED LANDS including the Cantonments Civil Aviation and Tradefair Redevelopment Lands are published immediately for public scrutiny.

Ghanaians deserve answers from the Government for the wanton Land Looting, Landguardism and growing Military involvement in Land disputes.

Ghanaians are resolved to be Citizens and not Spectators;

Ghanaians demand that the Lands Minister immediately publishes the agreement between his ministry and the notorious Landguard Clemence Gyato and Anyok Holdings Vigilante group to reclaim encroached State Lands and be paid with portions of the State Lands which is shared with some government officials as confirmed by the Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

There must be a Full-scale Public Parliamentary Enquiry into the Plundering of the Prime Public Lands of Ghana.

President Akufo-Addo set the benchmark for the return of State Acquired Lands by E.I. 432 which he signed to release 409 acres of Ashanti Region Lands [including lands occupied by state institutions as well as the Military] to the Ashantihene in trust for the Subjects of the GOLDEN STOOL.

The State must therefore not pretend that it is unaware that NO TRADITIONAL COUNCIL OWNS LAND ANYWHERE IN GHANA.

It is trite knowledge and settled law that NO TRADITIONAL COUNCIL HAS THE CAPACITY TO DEAL IN LAND CASES and therefore any purported return of Land to a Traditional Council by government is void.

The Memorandum of Understanding signed by Kweku Asoma-Cheremeh which was voided by Samuel Abu Jinapor upon assumption of office as Lands Minister must be consummated with the immediate publication of the Report on the Cantonments Civil Aviation Land.

The fraudulent allocation of State Lands to private persons [Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo and Yaw Osafo Maafo] must be immediately probed, Leases voided, Lands retrieved, ownership titles reverted to pre-acquisition land owners and the culprits prosecuted to serve as deterrent to others.

The Special Prosecutor must take immediate action to stop the use of Lands and Landed property to launder and hide proceeds of Galamsey and Corruption by corrupt government officials, Galamseyers and crooked businessmen.

God Save Our Homeland Ghana and help us survive the WASTED YEARS OF THE AKUFO-ADDO/BAWUMIA GOVERNMENT and their DumbDogs who can’t speak truth to power because they are compromised or complicit or corrupt.

#StopLandLooters

By Prince-Derek Adjei