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Many chiefs in Ghana are involved in land disputes and financial crimes

Is there any law in Ghana which prosecutes traditional chiefs that commit crimes? I am forced to ask this question because too many chiefs have either defrauded land buyers or have sold a land multiple times to many buyers with impunity.

One of the biggest problems facing Ghanaians and the Ghanaians in the Diaspora are land issues. Five years ago, I bought a land at Kasoa and invested 10,000 Euros in the project before the project was stopped by other people because the chief has sold the same property to someone else.

I lost the money and the plot. The sad part of it the chief responsible for this crime requested my father-in-law to see him for a new land.

He visited the chief many times as requested but nothing came out of it. At a certain time, some people nearly attacked him with cutlass when he visited where my project was going on.

The day I heard of that I pleaded with him not to go to the building site again. I am not prepared to lose my father-in-law because of a land.

So many Ghanaians and Ghanaians in the Diaspora have found themselves in a similar situation. There are even completed buildings which have been dented or partly broken down because of such disputes. This is very bad and not good for Ghana.

According to sources, there is so much corruption in the courts handling such cases, therefore, it’s very hard to win a case.

I wonder why what is not possible in advanced countries is always possible in Africa. Every African country has a leader, and ministers in charge of daily affairs including land, thus; why so much land disputes and litigations in Ghana?

Even though I have lost the land and the money I invested in my project, my question is: When will the Ghanaian government find a solution to this chronic problem in the country?.

There is nobody above the law, even though some people have escaped justice because of their wealth and position in the society, the Ghanaian government must seriously take land disputes into consideration to deal with anyone who breaks the law including the chiefs who are behind such crimes.

Both faithful Ghanaians and Africans in the Diaspora are helping to build Ghana in various ways. Foreign exchange and development in infrastructure benefit every country.

Therefore, if Ghanaians and Africans in the Diaspora will wake up in the morning to see their houses, some even built on loans are demolished, then the call of Africans in the Diaspora to come home and build the nation will fall on deaf ears.