The chief and people of Kpone have expressed concern about the rate at which the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) was selling lands belonging to the Kpone Traditional Council (KTC) to settler farmers to the detriment of its citizens.

The people feared that looking at the spate at which the lands were being sold there would be nothing left for present and future development.

In a release signed by Mr Alex Nii Annang, Assemblyman for Kpone on behalf of the chief and people, they have, therefore, petitioned the TDC and the government to release the land to the KTC before matters escalate.

The people made a further request to the TDC to pay all compensations and annuity due the KTC since the acquisition of the Kpone lands by the TDC in 1952 for development.

The release explained that upon a series of petitions by the Kpone Youth Association (KYA) to the government, the TDC released only 116 hectares equivalent to 811 plots to the KTC and promised to hold the rest of the land in trust for them.

However, they said the TDC was selling the land to settler farmers, who in turn dispose of them to estate developers to put up buildings.

''We will, therefore, apply all means necessary to protect the lands from wanton sales and destruction to avoid future judgement by posterity,'' the release warned.