The Deputy Minister of Lands and Pure Resources, Alhaji Sulemana Yusif, has tasked the brand new Bono Regional Lands Fee board to conduct their actions with the utmost integrity and transparency.
The board, he emphasised, performed a vital position in shaping land coverage on the regional degree and making certain alignment with nationwide growth.
The newly reconstituted board members took the oath of workplace administered by Ms Joyce Boahen, a supervising Excessive Courtroom Decide.
They embody representatives from Municipal and District Assemblies within the Bono Area, Ghana Institute of Surveyors, Bono Regional Home Chiefs, Lands Use and Spatial Planning Authority and Ghana Association of Farmers and Fishermen and a few authorized practitioners.
Talking at a brief ceremony to inaugurate the board on the Bono Regional Coordinating Council in Sunyani, the Deputy Minister famous that below the Lands Fee Act, 2008 (Act 767) the Fee was mandated to advise authorities establishments, District Assemblies and conventional authorities on land use and monitor land development in accordance with planning and regulation.
Alhaji Sulemana Yusif additionally urged the board to uphold transparency, professionalism and accessibility within the administration of Land points within the area.
He additional famous that “You aren’t right here to serve your individual curiosity. You might be right here to serve the individuals of the Bono Area to safeguard their rights and to make sure that land administration turns into environment friendly, truthful and accessible to all.”
The Deputy Minister additionally charged the board to implement measures that would scale back land registration time to curb unauthorised sale, conversion of stool and household Lands.
The Chairman of the brand new board, Ali Ibrahim Agyei, expressed his dedication to main a united workforce to handle the area’s land challenges head-on.
He assured that the board would work in partnership with conventional Authorities, assemblies and civil society to construct a land administration system that’s inclusive and trusted by the general public.
FROM DANIEL DZIRASAH, SUNYANI
