THE JUDGEMENT Debt commission chaired by the Sole Commissioner, Justice Yaw Apau to investigate judgment debt matters has suspended its public hearing until September 23, 2014.
The break is as a result of the commencement of the annual Ghana Bar Conference for lawyers scheduled to take place between today and Friday which counsel of the commission, Kofi Dometi Sorkpor and other lawyers will be attending.
At the last public sitting prior to the adjournment to September 23, the Sole Commissioner Justice Apau, ordered that hearing notice be served on the Chief Director at the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS) to appear before the Commission after the ministry failed to appear before it for the second time when it was subpoenaed.
When the case was called, Counsel of the commission, Mr. Sokpor said the Chief Director had relayed a message to say that the Economic and Organized Crime Office had taken the ministry's files and he was making efforts to collect them (files) before appearing at the Commission to give evidence.
Justice Apau�s concern was that the Commission has a limited time to submit its report to the Presidency, and would no longer entertain any excuses from people who have been subpoenaed.
�The Chief Director should be physically present to tell us something; I will not accept a letter from the ministry again because time is not on our side.�
The Commission had, on two occasions, subpoenaed MOYS to come and explain why the land which has been acquired by government at Nungua and Abeka in the Greater Accra region for the construction of a National Sports Complex, is still lying idle for encroachers to utilize the state property.
Anthony E. Quansah, Yilo Krobo District Manager of the Ghana Revenue Authority, and a sub-chief of Kete Krachi Traditional Area, briefed the Sole Commissioner of how the people in the area were considering claiming compensation from the government for failing to pay for the approximately 200 acre-land it acquired to construct an airstrip.
He made this known when he appeared at the commission together with other witnesses who benefitted from part of the GH� 138 million land compensation paid to the people of the Volta River Basin Flooded Areas.
Mr. Quansah said he collected GH�259,096.39 as compensation on behalf of his clan members, whose lands were submerged by water between 1962 and 1965 when the Akosombo Dam was constructed, but could not indicate the number of acres of land that was inundated.
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