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Prior to the raid on the peninsular by the Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie, who was accompanied by the Inspector General of Police, Ambrose Michael Sovula and a team of OSD personnel to arrest the headmen for alleged sales of State lands over the years, purchaser of the said lands in the communities bordering the Peninsular are reportedly demanding a return of the millions of Leones they paid to various village Headmen for the lands and surveyors that surveyed them knowing fully well that they were State lands.
At Adonkia, a business woman Madam Ramatu Kargbo, who lives at Peninsular Road Adjacent to the Adonkia Police Station, told The Satellite that she bought four town lots from one Hassan Gbassay Kanu at Adonkia, whom she said purported that the land was owned by his grandfather. She However said when she was recently informed by a neighbor that the Lands Ministry was clamping down on State lands grabbers and knowing that she was a defaulter, she demanded that Mr. Kanu returned her money.
Madam Kargbo said Mr. Kanu promised to refund her money the following day but later learnt that he has escaped together with his family to an unknow destination.
Sources close to the Lands Ministry reveal Dr Turad Senesie has lost confidence in most of his professional staff, noting that among the 118 land complaint resolutions presented to the Cabinet through the Land Committee documents and offer letters were done on behalf of land grabbers by inside professional staff.
The Satellite Newspaper reports that, sources say the Minister has shelved most of the former responsibilities given to those unscrupulous staff members to others and he is verry vigilant unlike before, adding that of the 305 complaints of the general public presented to the Investigation Committee, erstwhile Lands Minister Dr Dennis Sandy was implicated in certain cases because of the confidence he reposed in the staff.
According to the sources, whereas the former Lands Minister Dr Dennis Sandy Was more associated with staff members of the same ethnic group and probably of the same partisan leaning, the current Lands Minister Dr Turad Senesie gives preference to someone capable of carrying out their duties.
