{"id":464129,"date":"2018-02-14T00:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T00:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/14\/government-to-take-digital-land-registration-seriously-bawumia\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T00:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T00:33:49","slug":"government-to-take-digital-land-registration-seriously-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/14\/government-to-take-digital-land-registration-seriously-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to take digital land registration seriously \u2013 Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Tuesday, 13 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/44266578.295.jpg\" alt=\"Bawumia Lands10\" title=\"Bawumia Lands10\" width=\"295\" height=\"432\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia<\/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\/2018\/02\/1518568429_893_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawaumia has reassured Ghanaians that the Akufo-Addo government will take the digitalization of land very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>He described the bottlenecks associated with land registration in Ghana a major problem which needed to be addressed within the shortest period.<\/p>\n<p>At a visit to the Land Registration Division of the Lands Commission in Accra, the Vice President said government has been thinking of streamlining the process of Land Registration and Land Acquisition in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been living with this problem in Ghana for years but we are not changing it. This is time for us to change the system\u201d frustrated Bawumia said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot accept the status quo and the directions of the President are clear, we have to bring change in this whole process of acquisition of land\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President who was on a visit to familiarize with the processes at the Lands Commission said land is key in the development of many countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Ghana land is not part of the process in many cases and that does not allow the development of the mortgage market\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bawumia at the 21st National Banking Conference in Accra promised that the next phase of digitization in 2018 will occur in the land sector.<\/p>\n<p>This he said will promote transparency and efficiency in land administration and ease the bottlenecks associated with land registration in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia wondered how a mortgage market could be developed without being able to ascertain a title to a land and described the situation as the bane of the banking and financial services industry.<\/p>\n<p>He was optimistic that by the end of 2018, all land records in Ghana would be digital.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/aoJ7bLC1-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 72 updated by: 72 --><\/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>Business News of Tuesday, 13 February 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2018-02-13 play videoVice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawaumia has reassured Ghanaians that the Akufo-Addo government will take the digitalization of land very seriously. 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