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Allodial landowners of Aburi Amanfrom in Ghana's Eastern Region have appealed to the government to back Royal Kingdom Estates' 60-hectare Atwapim development and urged security agencies to protect the site, while dismissing rival claims to the land.
Suriname's ambassador to Ghana has performed a groundbreaking ceremony for a 20-acre city development at Appiahkrom in the Dormaa Traditional Area, part of efforts to reunite the Ansu families of Suriname and Dormaa-Ahenkro.
State Housing Company Limited has started a nationwide audit and recovery exercise covering its lands and properties, giving occupants and dealers without valid authority 21 days to regularise their interests or vacate.
Local Government Minister Mahama Ayariga says the government is working on a new financing framework, including pre-renting market spaces, after an Italian export credit facility was cancelled.
Roads and Highways Minister Governs Kwame Agbodza has warned property owners and developers building within the reservation of the Dome-Kwabenya-Berekuso-Kitase road corridor that they will not be compensated for structures erected there.
A Spintex businessman has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police over a 1.49-acre Teshie-Manet land dispute, alleging officers repeatedly arrested his workers while people behind an unauthorised demolition went free.
Prof Helen Essandoh of KNUST says failure to properly acquire land and resettle inhabitants for development projects is pushing many Ghanaians into poverty, even as infrastructure expansion continues.
Ghana has begun the third and final phase of the Appiatse redevelopment, cutting the sod for 69 additional homes for families displaced by the January 2022 explosion.
Residents of New Ogbojo, near Madina in Accra, say armed land guards attacked homes over three days and tried to force out more than 1,900 households, prompting a demonstration and calls for presidential intervention.