When Greater Accra Minister Henry Quartey visited the property with a team from the Regional Security Council, an alleged encroacher of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Animal Research Institute's (CSIR-ARI) 200-acre land at Frafraha in the Adentan Municipality in Accra was apprehended (REGSEC).
The purpose of the tour was to determine the extent of the site's invasion and to come up with solutions to the problem.
Encroachers had taken over part of the land and built abysmally on it, according to the Ghanaian Times.
An accused encroacher had already begun "laying the foundation" for a fence wall in front of the CSIR-veterinary ARI's facility on the property. The Regional Security Council (REGSEC), according to the Greater Accra Regional Minister, will go through the procedures to guarantee that the proper thing was done.
He disclosed this to the media in Accra last Tuesday following a visit to the site to assess the amount of invasion.
Mr Quartey said that the institute had requested help from the REGSEC, which prompted the REGSEC to travel to the location to assess the situation.
He emphasized how unfortunate it was that people had the audacity to build on government land anyhow.
"Here's an illustration of what I'm talking about. It's intended to be a veterinarian clinic, and as you can see, it's surrounded by a fence wall. "I'm not sure where we're going," he said.
"As a result, we've come to have a look at it." REGSEC will reconvene and make a decision, however we will notify you as soon as possible. But, by the grace of God, I believe we will get through the process and all of these will end up at CSIR-ARI," he concluded.
Dr Ebenezer Ansah, Director of the CSIR-ARI, revealed that the institute has 1000 acres of property but opted to hedge roughly 200 acres of it to prevent invasion in 2017.
"However, they have already come in and grabbed almost half of that." So we're talking about encroaching on almost 900 acres," he continued.
Dr. Ansah stated that the scenario was endangering their employees' lives and obstructing their job since the encroachers, who were largely land guards, were equipped with knives and weapons.
According to him, the institute's pasture variety project was ruined, and the veterinary clinic was no longer used as a result of the circumstance.
The institute's director indicated that they were looking into a man named Nii Adjetey Obuobuo, who had previously stated that he was interested in the property.
"He actually took us to court, and our CSIR lawyer was successful in getting a judgment against him." We suspect he is also engaging in unlawful operations with the help of land guards.
Aside from that, we know that the land guards are selling the lands to the general people," he continued.
While expressing optimism that the minister would see the matter through, Dr. Ansah stated that the best way to resolve the situation was to demolish all of the structures as a deterrence to those with similar ambitions.