Special Committee of Parliament Presents Report on Adjei-Kojo Demolition to Parliament

The Special Committee of Parliament set up to go into the demolition exercise carried out by the Tema Development Corporation, TDC at Adjei-Kojo says victims of the demolishing acted ignorantly by not conducting any search on the occupied land at the Land Title Registry before acquiring the parcels of land from the illegal claimants to the land. 

The Committee said this, when it presented its report on the Floor of the House. 

Presenting the report, the Chairman of the Works and Housing Committee David Tetteh Assumeng said TDC on the other hand slept on its rights for far too long thereby giving the victims a false sense of security and the incentive for continued development and encroachment on the land.
 
Radio Ghana Parliamentary Correspondents Dominic Hlordzi and Augustus Acquaye report that parliament constituted the special committee following a statement on the floor of the House by the MP for Tema West Irene Naa Torshie Addo on the demolition exercise by TDC which affected hundreds of families in February this year.
 
The Committee was mandated to investigate the legitimacy of TDC’s claim to the demolished site, whether the demolition was justified and whether due process was followed in the demolition.
 
Presenting the recommendations, the Chairman of the Works and Housing Committee David Tetteh Assumeng said the people who sold the lands to the affected persons should be made to compensate the victims and government may consider providing legal assistance to the victims. 

On humanitarian ground the committee recommends that government through the TDC take steps to ameliorate the plight of the affected persons.

Assumeng asked that steps be taken to address bottlenecks associated with land title registration and the menace of land guards.
 
The MP for Tema West Irene Naa Torshie Addo was unhappy about some issues raised by the committee.

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