Opinion: Landguardism In Ghana: The Hard Cold Truth

The State created and continues to create Landguards; the Military, the Police and the Lands Minister being the biggest culprits…

Lawyer Kwame Gyan was bigoted and biased on his analysis of the phenomenon on the Joy FM Super Morning Show as he blamed the Ga People rather than the obnoxious and discriminatory Law ACT2 (1960) that created Landguards as its byproduct…

The Protection of Purchasers Law [ACT2] was passed into law by the Parliament of Ghana in 1960, allowing anybody who steals Land in Accra and builds quickly to lintel level to automatically become the owner of the stolen land thus forcing the Accra land owners to Protect their property from theft…

The phenomenon on building quickly to lintel level caused by ACT2 brought in its wake a lot of unplanned buildings to spring up in its operational area which was not national but limited to Accra and a few areas.

Monitoring of the stealing of land in Accra using ACT2 was impossible, the sheer speed of the theft made the prevention of the theft impractical…

The Police have a Landguards department and property fraud office because of the operationalization of ACT2…

The Ghana Armed Forces have become a major LANDGUARD institution; evidence abounds at the Kpletso and Airport Hills area near the illegal Military Cemetery…

The State Sponsored Stealing of State Acquired Lands and Bungalows has become another phenomenon rivaling the Landguard situation.

The hiding of the proceeds of Galamsey and Corruption in Prime Lands in Cantonments, Labone and Airport are not helped by fraudulent allocation of State Lands and Bungalows to high profile personalities and organisations.

The refusal of President Akufo-Addo to remove Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo when he received an Article 146 Petition for her removal, detailing hundreds of other high profile Land Looters.

Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo paid GHc7000 for prime Cantonments State Land worth millions together with hundreds of other high profile personalities including senior government officials such as Yaw Osafo Marfo, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Atta Kyea as well as Judges, Lawyers diplomats etc

The Special Prosecutor has that list of Land Looters and also aware o the illegal agreement between the Lands 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…

The Special Prosecutor’s investigation of unexplained wealth must include the Land Looting and their Landguards as they fuel the corruption related offences.

The Land Law ACT 1036 criminalised Landguardism and made it imperative for all fiduciaries to be transparent and accountable in all Land Transactions.

The Special Prosecutor must compell Samuel Abu Jinapor to publish the status of all State Acquired Lands.

The Special Prosecutor must compell Asenso Boakye to publish the status of all State Bungalows.

Land Looting and Money Laundering are inextricably linked to the Corruption and Galamsey Investigations currently underway…

Ghanaians are resolved to be Citizens and not Spectators.

IT’S TIME TO ACT NOT TALK.

STAY TUNED.

Lawyer Kwame Gyan must tell Ghanaians whether the Okyehene’s Galamsey Taskforce that went on a shooting spree in the streets of Akyem Abuakwa and have been in the news arresting people; qualify as Landguards or a Vigilante group?

Lawyer Kwame Gyan must tell Ghanaians whether the Nii Kpobi Tettey Tsuru III vs Attorney General judgement is not a travesty of justice that has opened the floodgates for the Land Looting and its attendant Landguardism…

By Prince-Derek Adjei