The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) director for the West Akyem Municipality in the Eastern Region, Mr. Kwasi Addo Annor has urged the Ministry of Works and Housing to adopt story building policy in Ghana to save Land for the future, especially for Agriculture.
According to him, the rise in Ghana’s population is putting pressure on Land as more people are buying Lands for building whilst the number of farmers in the Country is also rising.
In an interview, Mr. Kwasi Addo Annor noted that the adoption of story building will save land for Ghanaian farmers to produce more to feed the country.
He also expressed worry over how policies at Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies allow people to build rooms at cemetery on dead bodies.
Mr. Addo Annor, who doubles as communication director for the Lowest West Akyem NPP called for review in Assemblies by-laws which grant a permit to the individual to build over the dead person in the cemetery for the Land to be used for other purposes in the future.
The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an “above-ground grave” (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries.
Source: Kofi Atakora
