According to the report carried by the Herald newspaper, encroachers have also taken over the Ghana Armed Force’s Recce Regiment’s Ammunition Dump in which bombs and Military Mowags are kept.
Speaking on the Big Bite on Xfm about the issue, the Director of the Public relations Directorate of the Ghana Armed Forces, Colonel Atintande M’bawine, said the problem of encroachment on the lands of the Ghana Armed Forces was a very serious one and was not only prevalent in Burma Camp but throughout the garrisons.
He said a warning was issued a few weeks ago to encroachers on lands belonging to the Armed Forces to vacate the premises and made mention of a similar issue in tamale two weeks ago.
“In the specific case of the airport field, that is the approach to the airport from the north. It’s a very serious thing because near the airport there should be no high rise building, that’s the first point. Any approaching aircraft will certainly be a target if you have a high rise building there. Therefore all people who are building near or along the path ways of the aircraft should be mindful that their buildings should not go higher than a certain height”.
He added that the railway line which he believed should be a boundary between the airport and the community around it had been crossed by the encroachers and that, he believed, was threatening. He appealed to people who give out lands to take certain factors into consideration before giving them out.
He said they had surveyed all lands and had engaged the lands commission to give titles to all lands given to the Ghana Armed Forces so as to enable the Force flush out all encroachers.
As a step to correct the anomaly, Colonel Atintande said “What we are doing is to patrol the place regularly and I’m sure the soldiers will take care of it at the appropriate time”.
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