But the Member of Parliament for Subin, Obiri Yeboah said the directive is unfair to individuals who have lawfully acquired such state lands as they are unable to transact any business at the lands Commission on their lands in order to develop of use those properties.

Speaking in an interview after a statement on the floor of the House on Monday, July 14, 2025, Mr. Obori Yeboah noted that it is not fair not to be able to sell your property you have lawfully acquired because of the embargo the president has placed on such transactions.

More so, the state is losing money because of lack of activities at the Lands Commission which is the second largest non-tax institution after the Ghana Revenue Authority that contributes a lot of money to the government.

He revealed that within these seven months, because of one letter, the nation has lost more than two billion Ghana cedis; “and you are telling me we should not talk about this embargo Some of us, we are not into politics to amass wealth for ourselves, rather to ensure the ordinary citizen is cared for. And without money roads and hospitals cannot be constructed, so allowing such money to go waste is a concern to some of us”.

Mr Obiri Yeboah asserted that acquiring property, solely or jointly is enshrined in the 1992 constitution and individuals have the constitutional rights to acquire property and when they do, they also have the right to decide what they want to do with their property.

“Let us say i bought a land since 1975 and the residue was 99 years, I have about forty nine years before the lease expires by which the government would determine whether the property should be given back to me or not by the virtue of this embargo; a property that I bought in 1975”.

“I cannot do any transaction on that property I cannot sign my interest to a third party; let say I have moved into a business which is looking good and I need bank loans to advance it, I cannot send it to the bank, I cannot mortgage my property simply because of this. And let say some people trespassed on my land or the Lands Commission took my land and gave it out to somebody and I send the matter to court and I have won; the Lands Commission is stopped from giving it to me because of this”.

He said the deputy minister for lands’ disclosure that by the second week in August, 2025 - three weeks from now, the embargo would be lifted is welcoming. “So if we have been able to wait for almost seven months, let us wait for the three weeks”.

“And if by second August the ban is not lifted you would hear from me again” he emphasized.