Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, James Dadson has said there is no record of the former late Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (Sir John) at the commission owning portions of the Achimota Forest Reserve.
According to him, there are no records indicating that the late Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, possessed lands in the Achimota forest.
A supposed will of Sir John which is currently in circulation in a section of the Ghanaian media indicated that the late Forer General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) owned portions of the forest reserve and accordingly bequeathed them to his relatives.
The documents list some individual relatives of Mr Owusu Afriyie’s to be allocated some portions of the Achimota Forest, which has become a topical issue in the past days as a result of an Executive Instrument signed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuf-Addo to declassify portions.
Speaking to the media, Mr James Dadson, said:
“There is nothing in our records concerning that. What you read is what I have read. We don’t have anything recorded here for Sir John as far as our records are concerned.”
It follows a public outcry over the publication of Sir John’s last will, in which he distributed the lands to his relatives and loved ones, among other enormous sums of money.
Meanwhile, flooding has ruined hundreds of documents, laptops, and scanners at the Lands Commission’s Head Office in Cantonments, Accra.
After Saturday night’s downpour, the basement of the new building was extensively flooded, flooding the Records Room, Files Room, and I.T. Unit, which are all located in the basement.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Evans Boateng
