Dirty Fraud At Lands Commission....Victim Narrates Hellish Ordeal

I and my wife have been trying to register a land we bought in 2011 after talking to a man, who just gave his name as George (last name unsure) at the lands Commission in Cape Coast, who assured us that the process would be no problem at all.

At first he seemed professional, but myself I noticed irregularities when he asked me to buy him a phone (as a white man I thought it might be cultural)

On the 6th of February 2012 we delivered the application for processing of documents.

It was signed on the 15th of February by George

Then he started exhaling, and new excuses were made all the time. He said he was working on the documents and that he was very busy As I am a Norwegian, my wife was trying to handle this matter on occasions when I was not in Ghana.

In July, she went to the office with a common friend of ours to compel George to fulfill his promises, only to realize he was asking for more money, with yet more fairytales of why this was the case.

Since she was going to visit me in Norway for two months (August & September) she sent our friend to pay him 700 Ghana cedis. Asking for the receipt, George said it would come back shortly and that now everything was taken care of and the documents should be ready soon.

My wife came back from her travel and George was not picking her calls, so in December after several attempts she went to the lands office.

As she got there George left her in the office leaving her to another person who also gave excuses for him, and that she should relax.

Being pregnant, I told my wife she shouldn't get frustrated over his lack of manners and that I would fix it when I was arrived in May unless any good news regarding the documents.

It is now September, and that fraudster has yet to complete the documents, we even went to see him last month, getting another set of excuses, which seems to be his hobby.

Now we have taken the step to forward the documents without him (still 700 Ghana cedis short)

I then learnt the Value of the land we bought has increased by 2000%

Buying it 6600 Ghana cedis the land valuer has set the price to 137000 Ghana cedis expecting me to pay 1370 Ghana cedis as the stamp duty is 1% in those terms of Value

So my questions are:

1. How can somebody like George be an agent of your services?

2. Is this common procedure for your workers?

3. Should we be the ones financially suffering caused by this incompetence at the lands commission?

4. Referring to the attachment below, is it just talk?

5. In what circumstances can we trust other employees at the lands commission?

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