The step is to pave the way for better cooperations between the Association's members, traditional authorities, and their communities.
He said some surveyors were using lanterns and torch lights to pick lands at midnight... if we are not able to clamp down on these corrupt surveyors, it would hinder and weaken efforts at licensing surveying activities.

"This is going to lead to threats. Threats can compromise approvals from traditional leaders and community landowners."

Oklepeme Sasraku II made the call at the Sixth Annual General Meeting and Seminar of the LISAG, in Accra on the theme: "Leveraging Base Maps for Urban Transformation and Economic Growth: The Licensed Surveyors' Role".
He underscored the need for traditional authorities to be recognised over land issues

To ensure sustainability of leveraging base maps for urban growth, he said it was not just about technology, academics, or modernisation, but building structures in sustainable ways.

The Paramount Chief said land was a critical commodity in human existence, adding: "We can say that land is life, because without land, we don't have existence. People are trying to go into the mars. But at the end of the day, they are not able to stay there. They still come back to the land," he added

To promote city growth, industrialization, and economic benefits, he recommended that the nation developed a pragmatic and conscious approach to handle land matters.
He admonished the Association to embark on effective advocacy and education for better understanding, to enable traditional authorities, landowners, and communities to appreciate the importance of their operations.

Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, the Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, in a speech read on his behalf, said the nation's cities were growing at a very fast rate, hence requiring up-to-date and comprehensive spatial data to guide development.