President Akufo-Addo has stated that it is unacceptable for Ghana to continue manually processing lands in this day and age.
As a result, he has requested that the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, in collaboration with all stakeholders, expedite action on the processes that will lead to the full digitalization of the Lands Commission.
The President stated that this was necessary in order to end the manual administration of lands in the country.
He made the remarks while addressing attendees of the 2022 National Land Conference at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC), on Wednesday (7 December 2022).
The event was on the theme: “Leveraging National Land Policy, Legislation and Institutional Capacity Towards Sustainable Socio-economic Development”.
“In this age of technology, it is unacceptable that we are still operating in a largely manual environment. We cannot deliver an efficient land administration if documents on land have to be processed manually” President Akufo-Addo said.
“We must therefore expedite action on the digitalization process and ensure that the Commission goes fully digital,” President Akufo-Addo said.
In his remarks at the opening ceremony, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor stated that his ministry recognises the critical need to fully digitise land administration in order to make the process efficient and free of corruption.
“We are working rigorously to ensure the digitisation of the records of the Lands Commission,” Jinapor said.
“This will lead to improved maps and spatial data, digital transformation, systematic recording, verification and creation of national cadastral and implementation of national spatial data infrastructure,” the Lands Minister added.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
