The Acting Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, Surveyor James E.K. Dadson, has expressed his unwavering commitment to ensure that his outfit renders quality and efficient land administration services by providing reliable and quick land registration request to its clientele base in order to reduce the incidence of land litigation phenomenon doted across the country.
Surveyor James E.K. Dadson, gave this assurance during his official engagement with the Royals of the Pentecost Church of Ghana, in Kasoa, on the 2nd June 2022 at the Pentecost Convention Centre in the Central Region, at its annual Royal Conference.
He used the opportunity to highlight the milestone achievements by his outfit to ensure that issues of land registration is seamlessly processed in order to curb the arbitrary land litigation cases saddled with the country’s Law Courts.
This according to him necessitated the commission to establish 6 more regional administrative offices totalling 16 Regional offices across the country.
The move will further bring the commission’s services closer to the citizenry by decentralizing its work and be more accessible to Ghanaians.
He also charged Ghanaians to endeavour to exhaust due processes before acquiring land by undertaking Ground validation checks, getting a professional to prepare the site plan, and conduct a Search at the Lands Commission to ascertain the true Ownership and the eventual status of the land before making any determination for the acquisition of any land.
Surveyor Dadson further disclosed that the Lands Commission has also employed the usage of digital innovations that has robustly changed the phase of the land registration procedures which could be accessed and invariably registered on the Lands Commission’s website for any land registration purposes and request made to the Lands Commission.
He added that the commission has started undertaking a digitization drive of its manual records which are being scanned, georeferenced and digitized to bring more speed to the services it provides to the Ghanaian people.
Surveyor E.K. Dadson, also used the platform to highlight some challenges encountered by the Lands Commission which includes the Multiple sales of Land and Multiple judgements by the courts. He however, assured that his outfit is undertaking far -reaching steps to ameliorate those lingering problems associated with land registration and acquisition in Ghana.
The Acting Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, Surveyor James E.K. Dadson emphasized that the Lands Commission operates under the Lands Commission’s Act,2008 (Act 767) and mandated amongst other things to manage all public lands vested in the hands of President and also advise the Government, local authorities and traditional authorities on the policy framework for the development of the public lands in Ghana.
He used the occasion to commend the Pentecost Church of Ghana for giving the Lands Commission the opportunity to sensitize its members on land issues.
The General Secretary of the church of Pentecost, Apostle Alexander Nana Yaw Kumi Larbi on his part indicated that the rationale for the Conference was to mobilize the Royals (Kings, Chiefs, Queen Mother’s & Family Heads) within the church and formally take them through some training on Land issues and Chieftaincy related matters in resolving most of the land disputes that confronts members.
Apostle Alexander Nana Yaw Kumi Larbi, also received a donation of 50 copies of the Land Act documents on behalf of the church.
Present at the function were the Greater Accra Regional Lands Officer, Surveyor Timothy Anyidoho, and other officials from the Lands Commission and as well as the general membership of the Pentecost Church of Ghana.
Philip Asiawo
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