Contrary to all the media reports on the said Information Service Department(ISD) land allegedly being encroached on by a businessman, the bare facts available indicates otherwise according to a statement released under the hand of Mr. Kofi Owusu.
It said, the 0.34 acre land which has become the subject of controversy used to be a haven for some squatters and a dump site for some residents around the Kanda enclave for several decades until a Ghanaian businessman rightfully acquired it for development.
The land is actually located near TV3, at Kanda in Accra and at the tail end or bottom part of the said ISD land.
He said, “even as of now, quite apart from the 0.34acre land matter being discussed today, there are other individuals who also have developed properties including Baba Ali Seidu, office of Smattys (which did the infamous bus branding) is there as well as a chop bar a local restaurant.”
“And all these individuals have leases running into some 25years or more around the same enclave as the 0.34acre land. So now how is it that the Ghanaian developer’s rightly acquired land becomes a subject of controversy or perhaps somebody doesn’t like his ‘nose’?”, he quizzed.
Mr. Owusu stated that “It’s unfortunate however that for whatever reason, motivation or considerations, some faceless people are pushing this vile agenda against this businessman who is also a Ghanaian like any other but they would rather see a Chinese or Lebanese or any foreigner at all own that project or that parcel of land which hitherto had been abandoned for several decades.”
He said, “as matter of fact even the portion which belongs to the ISD has been left unattended to since as far back as the nineteen-sixties when the land was allocated to the ISD and still lies unattended.”
“So, one wonders why anybody would really have any qualms with development going on, on the small 0.34acre land just at the side of the ISD land.
The levels of self-hate and sabotage between or amongst Ghanaians and the pull him down syndrome must stop!”, he opined.
Part of the ISD land being used as ‘Chop Bar’
