The Lands Commission has launched a five-year Business Strategic Plan from 2023 to 2027 to guide its operations.
The plan was launched at the Executive Secretary’s annual briefing and launching of the Staff Awards Scheme in Accra, on Friday, February 2, 2024.
The strategic plan has five major goals including enhancing the Commission’s financial sustainability, digital reforms and corporate image, as well as the competence and discipline of staff to improve service delivery.
According to the Acting Executive Secretary, Mr. Benjamin Arthur, as part of this year’s working plans the Commission would launch an outreach programme, dubbed: “You Deserve to Know” campaign, to educate the public on several aspects of its operations and activities.
The campaign, he explained, would focus on creating public awareness of the Commission’s mandate, service delivery and specific processes in delivering those services, the fees chargeable for the services, and digital reform platforms, among many others.
Mr. Arthur noted that the campaign would enhance the corporate image of the Commission, public trust, and confidence in its operations.
“In Ghana, workers of the Lands Commission are perceived as taking the “biggest bribes” and other media reports on the performance of the Commission often focused on our shortcomings whilst little is reported on the efforts and good works of the Commission. The very hard works of most staff are drowned by the wrongs of the few. Most people are not well informed about our operations and the role of the Commission in the land space”,” Mr. Arthur said.
Mr. Arthur stressed that the outreach campaign is however intended to correct these misconceptions and create a positive corporate image going forward.
However, the Acting Executive Secretary explained that the commission’s corporate image redemption drive could only succeed if it was associated with improvements in service delivery to the public.
Mr Arthur, thus, called for teamwork among the staff and management to complement one another and achieve the desired outcomes.
Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Benito Owusu-Bio, who was at the annual brief highlighted the Ministry’s plans for this year including digital transformation of land administration activities, completion of the new Lands Commission’s head office, which would be commissioned in April this year, and enhancement of the Commission’s corporate image.
He therefore expressed confidence in the Commission’s leadership and believed that it was heading in the right direction.
“Ghanaians will overwhelmingly vouch for the credibility and efficiency of the Commission sooner or later,” he said.