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THE government of Ghana has disclosed the reason why the premises of the High Commission of Nigeria in Accra was demolished last Friday by unknown men.

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Ghana Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, in a statement on Thursday, said though there is evidence that Nigeria had paid for the 4 -acre parcel of land, it is yet to possess the Title Certificate to the property from the Lands Commission.

Botchwey was a member of the Committee, comprising officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, the Lands Commission, National Security Secretariat and the Ghana Police Service, that investigated the violation of the Nigerian territory in Ghana.

The preliminary finding shows that the Lands Commission, a government agency responsible for land registry in Ghana, confirmed that the letter of August 7, 2000, granting allocation and right of entry to the Nigerian High Commission, “was genuine and, indeed, emanated from its Head Office.”

The High Commission of Nigeria further presented receipts of payments on the said land, made by Bankers Draft payable to the Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission. But the Land Title Certificate had not been issued to the Nigerian High Commission, the Committee has reported.

Nearly 20 years after the transaction, the Lands Commission wrote a letter informing the High Commission of Nigeria, that the original owner of the land, Osu Stool had requested the Lands Commission to grant a lease to a third party on the land in question.

The Lands Commission, therefore, advised the High Commission of Nigeria to provide relevant documents on ownership of the land, but Nigeria did not respond.

“Based on the silence of the High Commission of Nigeria, the Lands Commission went ahead and issued a Land Title Certificate covering the said parcel of land to a third party,” the committee report stated.

The ICIR later confirmed that the “third party” is GLICO Healthcare Limited, a subsidiary company under the GLICO group owned by Dr. Andrew Kwame Achampong-Kyei,a Ghanaian business mogul.

“Unfortunately, owing to the fact that the High Commission did not obtain a lease following the allocation letter, or proceed to obtain a Land Title Certificate or even a building permit for the new property, a search by the Lands Commission did not show that any proper documentation had been obtained in respect of the property,” the committee stated.

So on June 16, a group of armed men showed up at the premises and demolished the fence around the premises. Three days later they brought down a part of the building.

Geoffrey Onyeama, Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has condemned the demolition in his tweet on Sunday.

“We strongly condemn two outrageous criminal attacks in Accra, Ghana on a residential building in our diplomatic premises by an unknown person in which bulldozer was used to demolish the building.”

The minister was relying on articles 22 and 30 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations that stipulate that the premises of the Mission as well as the private residence of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable.

He asked the Ghanian government to find the perpetrators and provide adequate protection for Nigerians and their property in Ghana.

The following day, the Paramount Chief of the Osu Traditional Area and the President of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI said in a statement the land on which the building was built belongs to Osu Stool.

Nii Kinka Dowuona VI condemned the Ghanaian government of inviting the “tresers” to produce documentation for their parcel of land.

“The Osu Stool remains the owner of the said parcel of land and wishes to notify the general public that all other intended s of the property must first seek the permission of the stool.

“The stool informs the general public that there has never been a purchase of any parcel of land from it by the foreign office of the Nigerian High Commission.”

Despite the disclosure, the Stool did not it that it was responsible for the demolition.

The latest news reports in Ghana disclosed that two people have been arrested in connection with the demolition. The ICIR could not ascertain if Chief Dowuona VI is one of them.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/why-nigeria-high-commission-building-in-ghana-was-demolished/

Even Gambia cannot be embarrassed like that but no one cares because Nigeria is a company where politicians invest to make profit, and not a country.

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Nigeria always cutting corners

Ghana's bitter rivalry with Nigeria is age-long but the fact that Ghana must come to term with is that,Nigeria even in her worse state is better than Ghana in term of human and material resources.

Hmmm, African governments need to improve in their transparency with landed property acquisition policies and enforcement, its always a war in most West African nations and cities












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Did we need any explanation at all? We only ask for a gigantic building in replacement of the already demolished.

Ghana dey flex muscles untop Nigeria head.. i won't call mr president lifeless..

But i can bet my balls, Ghana won't try this if na Obasanjo be the president..

This government is so useless that I don't even know the language to qualify it. I wonder what is still working in this country. Buhari is just there as a nonentity who knows nothing about the happenings around him. Tinubu will be regretting his decision to this man currently. My fear is that 3 year is too long to continue this way.

Giant of Africa?..................what a country

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Hi.
Are you seriously shitting me?!
High commission paid. It's even got a letter of allocation and right of entry to the land issue by the land commission itself.
But one document - Title certificate... Just this document led to the demolition of a the building which must have cost a lot.

I don't care about any article quoted by Nigeria's minister. I not even sure it's valid but..
They must build it back

Ghanaians and their bitter rivalry with Nigeria ehn.

Even Jesus sef don tire for Nigeria matter.

Hmmm

Shameful

Shame

Ordinary small ghana dey demolish una High commission

Ghana is an embarrassment to Africa for allowing such an ignoble to happen to diplomacy.

Nigeria is lifeless

The domolisher should quickly be extradited to the demolishee for just trial

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Very distainful.

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When you use 'Quota system" to fill every available place, this is what you get.

The only reason is see finish

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Eziobodo is a community located in owerri west imo state Nigeria. Eziobodo is popular because it's one of the committee hosting the federal University of Technology owerri


We have one plot of land at eziobodo futo road for 4.2 million Naira

We have a plot of land along ihiagwa eziobodo road for 2.2 million Naira.

We have plots of land inside inside eziobodo within the boundary of eziobodo mbirichi going for 200k per plots. NB this is a farmland not yet parcelated

We have land available at okwukwu for 400k per plot

Imagine that

The ghana people whether the land is genuine or not will do everything to discredit nigeria as a nation but I tell you the truth that ghana is a country full of bitter minded individuals.

They dash madness to their own people at will. They hate the progress of anybody especially the nigerians. Ghana actually want nigeria to burn. A ghana news without nigeria added to it can never trend. If you want to quote me, you can I am in Accra. I speak twi too.

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Due consultation was supposed to be followed before demolition

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infini771:
Even Gambia cannot be embarrassed like that but no one cares because Nigeria is a company where politicians invest to make profit, and not a country.

There's nothing like embarrassment here, yes they mistakingly demolished a certain building. Later on, Nigeria Government took a step in which they later apologized and they promised to build another one better than the already demolished. What more are you expecting?

U say?

Ghanian government should rebuild the building ASAP