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Minister-designate for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor has called for the implementation of the new Lands Act. 

Samuel Abu Jinapor appeared before the Appointments Committee in Parliament on Wednesday, February 24.

Speaking before the Appointments Committee, he stated he will be working with the new Act when approved by the Committe to become the sector Minister.

''Mr. Chairman, I want to submit that [the implementation] the effective implementation of this new Lands Act (Act 1036) will go a great way of improving the administration of land in our country...We will require to make sure that we publicize it. 1. We have to get the country to be aware of it, to know about the implications of the provisions of this Act. We must have a strategy and a policy to ensure that this Act is well implemented'', he stated.

Parliament passed the Land Bill last year to reform land administration in Ghana and is aimed a revising and consolidating the laws on land.

The former Deputy Chief of Staff held that the Act will help address all land entitlement issues and other related matters regarding lands.

He said; ''...literally all the funny difficult issues relating to land administration [seems to have been], this Act seems to have intervened in almost all of them.''

He also added that he will reduce the number of days it takes for a person or investor to acquire a land entitlement.

''Mr. Chairman, I will endeavor to do that'', he pledged.