By Albert Allotey
Accra, Sept. 10, GNA – Bishop Matthew Addae-Mensah, the Founder and Leader of the Gospel Light International Church says the church’s planned university at Kasoa-Opeikuma in the Central Region would help offer 50 scholarships to students from the area.
He called on the chiefs and elders of the area to engage the youth to sensitize them to get an understanding of the benefits that they would gain when the facility was allowed to come on board.
Bishop Addae-Mensah made the call when he engaged the media to throw light on the church’s 168-acre land legally acquired from the chiefs of Kasoa-Opeikuma to establish a university with the provision of other social amenities.
He said the land was in the process of being used to build a community of its own with the provision of hospitals, ultra-modern markets, police stations among other facilities to open the place for investments while creating jobs for the people.
“However anytime the church makes an attempt to develop the land, the youth of Kasoa-Opeikuma come to attack and destroy all that have been put up, which put the church’s investment to waste, and it does not augur well for the progress of the area,” he stated.
Bishop Addae-Mensah said as a church they do not believe in demolishing of property which people have invested so much in them and for that matter they have served notices to residents who have encroached on the land to approach the church to regularize their land documents.
He stated that at least by the close of this year, 2024 every encroacher must formalize its land document with the church.
He called on the law enforcement agencies to clamp down on the land-guard menace, which has become an albatross on landowners across the country for development to thrive.
He commended the current Inspector-General of Police George Akuffo Dampare and the Kasoa Divisional Police personnel for their role in protecting the rest of the portion of the church’s land and encouraged them to do more.
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