The Daily Graphic says the time has come for the mandated State institutions, especially MMDAs to strictly enforce provisions of Act 462 to ensure compliance with the law in relation to land acquisition and development. The Paper calls for punitive action against errant individuals to deter others from acting with impunity. According to the Graphic, the Development Permit Guideline document put together by the Town and Country Planning Department in partnership with three ministries including the Local Government and Rural Development. Environment Science Technology and Innovation and Lands and Natural Resources Ministries in 2015, must be implemented to the letter. To the paper, it is important for the permitting process to be made less cumbersome to help promote orderly development of human settlements.
The Ghanaian Times has described as unfortunate the fact that annually, thousands of hectares of farmlands are destroyed and a variety of livestock killed through flooding and the spillage of the Bagre Dam. The Paper says the devastation caused by the spillage is having a negative impact on the livelihood of people in the downstream and it is difficult to understand why the country has not been able to contain the excess water from the perennial heavy of rains and the spillage of Bagre Dam over the years to augment agricultural productivity. The Times asks that the annual combined rituals of the Bagre Dam spillage and massive downpours can be turned into blessings through the construction of dams to collect and store the excess water.
