Dominic Nitiwul, the former Minister of Defence has claimed the New Patriotic Party (NPP) did not give out any state lands to anybody.
According to Dominic Nitiwul, the NPP government could only do a private partnership to some extent but not sell the lands to individuals.
His comments follow heated debates over the sale of state lands, with the NDC and NPP engaging in accusations against each other.
Speaking in an interview on Channel One TV’s Face to Face, Nitiwul detailed, “We have not given out any state lands to anybody. We never, we don’t do that. We can only do private partnerships to some extent. But to sell lands to individuals we can’t. The general question of state lands has to be very holistic”.
“If there’s anybody who has taken state lands if you put the two parties together. The NDC has sold more state lands to private individuals than the NPP”.
“All of them are selling under a policy called in-filing. It was under the NDC administration from 1996 to 1998 when that policy was started”, he added.
Meanwhile, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah the Lands and Natural Resources Minister-designate has boldly stated that State lands should not be sold to shortchange Ghanaians.
According to him, although state lands should not be sold, if it must be sold it must be done at the current market value and not to shortchange Ghanaians.
