Ghana LAP 2 focuses on women groups

The second Ghana Land Administration Project (LAP 2) has intensified education on the project for women groups.

To this end, it has organised workshops for queenmothers in the Central Region at Mankessim and women societies at Cape Coast.

Speaking at the workshop at Mankessim, Mrs Sarah Antwi-Boasiako, Social Development and Gender Specialist said the workshops were to sensitise women on land management and use.

Mrs Antwi-Boasiako said land issues had become tony issues which often led to litigations in the country, and therefore there was the need for women who formed the greater part of the population to be made aware of the land project.

She urged women to take interest in land issues as a means of preparing the ground for their children.

Mr Kweku Sersah-Johnson, Communication and Public Outreach Specialist of Land Administration, said the second phase of the land project was aimed at consolidating the gains made under the phase one by deepening the reforms and strengthening land administration and management systems for efficient and transparent service delivery.

He said it also aimed at improving the Deeds and Title Registration Systems in terms of security and reduction of turn-round time for service delivery.

Mr Yaw Aboagye-Kyei, Central Regional Lands Officer appealed to landowners not to allow people they had sold or released lands to, to prepare indentures covering the lands.

He said delays in registration of indentures were due to improper preparation of the indentures, for example using the names of people who did not need to sign the document.

Mr Aboagye-Kyei said family lands could not be given out to children of family members.

Nana Ama Amissah III, Queenmother of Mankessim Traditional Area expressed concern about the increasing number of quack surveyors in the area and suggested that one chief and one queenmother from the traditional area should be made to serve on the Lands Board.

Source: GNA