He accused the chiefs of indiscriminately selling lands with the connivance of some businessmen who go about rezoning such parcels of land without recourse to the assembly. “Nananom and Assembly Members are the cause of Kumasi’s problems. The chiefs sell out lands indiscriminately without recourse to the assembly. According to him, the quality of assembly members are of very low with little or no urban development backgrounds yet are those said to be championing the sale of priority lands within the city. The former Deputy Local Government Minister said almost all the big companies in Kumasi have collapsed due to activities of the assembly and chiefs.

Source: GhanaWeb March 15, 2018 06:00 UTC