The Nungua Traditional Council has appealed to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Abdullai Jinapor, to as matter of urgency take steps to remove all illegal structures on the Sakumono Ramsar Site and Nungua site for National Sports Complex.
According to the council, the government acquired the sites for special projects but encroachers had taken over the areas, while state institutions mandated by law to protect it, look on unconcerned.
Addressing journalists in Accra on Friday, the Nungua Shitse/Mantse, Professor Oboade Notse King Odaifio WELENTSI III said the council was bound to protect the stool lands because it was entitled to take back the lands if government failed to use the land for the purpose for which it was acquired.
He said the Ramsar Site was part of large tracts of land acquired from the Nungua Stool alongside Tema and Kpone for the construction of Tema Harbour and and other facilities, while the Nungua Site for National Sports Complex, an area of 745.272 acres was acquired by government from the Nungua Stool in 1999 to construct a sports facility for public use.
He said a section of the land surrounding the Sakumono lagoon and measuring1,365 hectres, under the custody of the Tema Development Council (TDC) was transferred to the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission through negotiation from 1987-92.
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