{"id":446712,"date":"2017-12-13T17:11:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/mahama-military-land-saga-i-achieved-my-aim-nitiwul\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:11:01","slug":"mahama-military-land-saga-i-achieved-my-aim-nitiwul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/mahama-military-land-saga-i-achieved-my-aim-nitiwul\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Military Land Saga: &#8216;I achieved my aim&#8217; \u2013 Nitiwul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/80451736.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Nitiwul 21\" title=\"Dominic Nitiwul 21\" width=\"295\" height=\"201\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dominic Nitiwul, Minister of Defence<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513185061_616_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has said his comment about former President John Mahama\u2019s stay in a property built on a \u201cdisputed land\u201d close to Burma Camp, which has been \u201cearmarked\u201d for acquisition by the government for military purposes, has helped him to \u201cachieve\u201d his \u201caim\u201d of deterring encroachers from that area.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nitiwul, at a press briefing last week advised the former president to vacate the area, since, in his view, encroachers were using Mr Mahama as an \u201cimpetus\u201d to develop the area.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahama\u2019s office later issued a statement describing the Bimbilla MP\u2019s comment as \u201creckless\u201d and \u201cirresponsible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahama\u2019s Aide, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, in a recent interview, demanded an apology from Mr Nitiwul after the East Dadekotopon Development Trust (EDDT), a rival claimant to the title of the sprawling land, told journalists at a press conference that: \u201cIt is not a military land; [even] the Burma Camp land is an old airport land acquired in 1944&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying his statement on Accra-based Joy FM\u2019s Super Morning Show on Wednesday, 13 December, Mr Nitiwul told host Kojo Yankson that: \u201c\u2026My aim was to make sure that people do not make reference to the former president as the person who is living there for others to have the impetus to do that. And I think I have achieved that aim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 Oh yes I think I have because today anybody who intends to go and encroach that land will think twice, anybody who would want to go and build on the military land today will think twice, anybody who now wants \u2013 whether Burma Camp or outside Burma Camp \u2013 to develop that area will think twice, I think I have achieved that aim,\u201d Mr Nitiwul reiterated.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, his comment was more of an advice to Mr Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith specific reference to former President Mahama, I said as a former Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, where he is living is not good for him and if I were him, I would not even live there. I did not even talk about the ownership of his property or the property of the area in question.<\/p>\n<p>I just said where he is living, it is not very good for him to live in that area because you are the former Commander-in-Chief and he knows that the military asked that that area should not be encroached and they gave it out to Chain Homes, gave it out to individuals, in fact the military had to put a cemetery there to stop people from encroaching, so the cemetery shares a wall with Chain Homes as we speak today.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who thinks I\u2019m joking should drive there, the military had to quickly put a cemetery there to stop people from encroaching more into it, so I want to say to East Dadekotopon that I don\u2019t get myself involved in the ownership of land in Labadi or Accra, I don\u2019t get involved at all and I don\u2019t think any minister will get himself involved at all in this area\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining himself further, Nitiwul said: \u201cWhat I said to the former President is that: \u2018Where you are living, it is not something very good because you are a former Commander-in-Chief and you know that the military was in contention with the land owners for them to be able to have access to that land, so it\u2019s not good for you to live there, full stop.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201c\u2026I never talked about the ownership of the land\u201d because it is the subject of litigation in court.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he made reference to the former President so as to politicise his stay in the area, Mr Nitiwul said: \u201cOh no I will never do that, I said, and if you listened to my words, that because he is staying in that disputed area, it is not good for him and it is giving others the impetus to encroach, that is exactly what I said and that\u2019s exactly what I meant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that as former Commander-in-Chief, where he is living is not helping matters, I never talked about he owning land or he owning a property \u2026 what I said is that he is not helping matters because he is giving me and the military sleepless nights and people are encroaching, when you talk they say: \u2018Is it not the former president who is living here?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that even though he neither spoke to the former president directly nor wrote to him in connection with the matter, he personally sent messages through former Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine to be conveyed to Mr Mahama.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: classfmonline.com 2017-12-13 Dominic Nitiwul, Minister of Defence Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has said his comment about former President John Mahama\u2019s stay in a property built on a \u201cdisputed land\u201d close to Burma Camp, which has been \u201cearmarked\u201d for acquisition by the government for military purposes, has helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":401099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahama Military Land Saga: &#039;I achieved my aim&#039; 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