Ghana's foreign affairs minister has said the country will reconstruct a building demolished inside the Nigerian High Commission compound in Accra.
Armed men reportedly stormed the compound last week and destroyed buildings under construction. Two people have been arrested over the incident.
A businessman who had previously claimed that he owned the land where the building was being put up had led the demolition operation, according to an article posted on the Nigerian High Commission website in Ghana.
"The man showed up last week with some papers to support his claim and began to knock down the fence surrounding the building," the article quotes a source at the ministry of foreign affairs as saying.
Ghanaian Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said the government would restore the building to its original state as soon as possible.
She added that the High Commission will be issued with a title deed for the land.
Ms Botchwey said Ghana was committed to ensuring the safety of members of the diplomatic corps and that her government was engaging Nigeria to calm tension between the two countries.
Source: BBC
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completely unnecessary to reconstruct it by the government. The Nigerians totally ignored lands commission's requests for documentation to complete the tittle for them, so lands commission through the Osu traditional council thought the Nigerians had no interest in the land anymore and so went ahead to sell and procure a land tittle to another party only for the Nigerians to hurriedly build on the land even after several orders for them to stop. They should remember they don't have the tittle to the land and even have no building permit for that structure, they only have a letter and receipts for some payments, that's not how to own a piece of land in this country. Malice! Why should the government reconstruct a building that has no permit? Our laws must be respected aaba.
By this time whoever ordered the demolition should be sacked and arrested and prosecuted. The president and foreign minister doesn't seem to be aware, so someone should be dealt with. If the government is going build new building for Nigeria, we will jail anyone responsible for causing financial loss to the state.