The Greater Regional Coordinating Council has indefinitely postponed the demolition exercise of illegal structures at the Sakumono Ramsar site.
Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, announced that the recent action taken is to facilitate further conversations between the council and traditional authorities.
He explained that the security and intelligence agencies do work with instructions; hence, they will assist the land and forest commissions to go through some processes; therefore, the structures will remain untouched.
“I want to say here and now that not a single building will be demolished. We will go through some processes of discussions, and we will have this kind of meeting again in about three weeks’ time, by which time we will have a clear roadmap.”
“We are human beings; we reason, and we know the circumstances that we find ourselves in currently, so we want to show a human face,” he remarked.
Speaking at a brief meeting on Sunday, Mr. Henry Quartey expressed his worry over the rate at which chiefs and elders are selling the lands and urged them to assist in solving the issue of the illegal sales of lands in the communities, which pose threats.
“But the question is, so what will happen to the next generation in the next ten years?” he asked.
Member of Parliament for Tema West, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, further charged the Minister to ensure that people involved in the selling of the lands are dealt with.
