Prof. Ransford Gyampo, a Professor at the University of Ghana, has urged the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources to ensure his exuberance is well-targeted in his investigations of the wrongful acquisition of state lands.
He stated that the Minister’s course of action is a welcome development but warned it is easy to deal with dead men because they cannot talk.
In an Open Letter, Prof. Gyampo charged Mr. Samuel Abu Jinapor to probe deeper to expose his colleagues who are very much alive and who may have acquired lands that they are not supposed to acquire.
He said, “Deal with them to give more meaning to your exuberance.”
“Should you be able to do this with the same energy and zeal, you will have the full support and respect of the many discerning Ghanaians who are at the moment, cautiously optimistic about the sincerity of your swift interventions,” he added.
Read the text of the letter below:
Open Letter to the Lands and Natural Resources Minister
Dear Mr Jinapor,
You are being cautiously hailed as an action man, and of course, this is to be expected from a very young dynamo man with all the zeal.
I have spoken to quite a number of well-meaning people in society about the Sir John land acquisitions and many seem unsure of what is really going on. Some are however happy with your swift intervention.
But I think your exuberance must be well-targeted.
Take note that it is easy to deal with dead men because they don’t and actually can’t talk.
Probe deeper to see your colleagues living souls who may have acquired lands they aren’t supposed to acquire.
Deal with them to give more meaning to your exuberance. Should you be able to do this with the same energy and zeal, you will have the full support and respect of the many discerning Ghanaians who are at the moment, cautiously optimistic about the sincerity of your swift interventions.
Thank you.
Yaw Gyampo
A31, Prabiw
PAV Ansah Street
Saltpond
&
Suro Nipa House
Kubease
Larteh-Akuapim
