General News of Monday, 13 January 2020Source: Graphic.com.ghLands Ministry vows to reclaim encroached state landsKwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, the Minister of Lands and Natural ResourcesThe Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has started a nationwide exercise to reclaim state lands illegally occupied by individuals, businesses and organisations. The minister urged members of the public to seek expert advice and authenticate intended land transactions from the Lands Commission to avoid losses. "The doors of the Lands ministry and its agencies are open and any member of the public who has any grievance on the management of state lands can contact the client service and access unit of the Lands Commission or the Technical Directorate for Lands at the ministry for redress," he said. He, however, said checks at the Lands Commission had shown that there was no evidence that the UPSA had legally acquired the parcel of land at the centre of the dispute. "The university claimed to have acquired the land but when we visited the files, we realised that the land is still state property," he said.

Source: GhanaWeb January 13, 2020 08:03 UTC