After allegations of compromising his official duties with politics to suit his whims and caprices started flying in thick and fast, the Municipal Chef Executive of the Abokobi Municipal Assembly, Hon. Kwao Sackey, has called the bluff of the Ghana Police Service, and the Queen Mother of Asante Agona (Oyoko Clan), in the Ashanti region, Nana Serwaa Karikari (also a landlady in the area), asking them to go to court if they think the Assembly had not been able to address their concerns.
Nana Serwaa Karikari is one of the many property owners at the said area (Rocks street, behind the Paramount Hotel), who have for over six years, on many occasions, appealed to the Abokobi Municipal Assembly to address their concerns over the alarming rate at which encroachers were taking over the area, but to no avail.
Of such encroachers is one Margaret Adu-Poku, who once had her structure pulled down by the Amasaman Assembly, but had been able to rebuild it due to her her supposed connections at the Abokobi Municipal Assembly, the New Crusading GUIDE has gathered.
According to Nana Serwaa, the activities of encroachers in the area had created fear, to the extent that “sometimes you walk in the night and people will be chasing you for your bags and mobile phones”.
When scouts from this paper visited the area, several structures had been given ultimatum since 2006 to be “removed immediately”, but were still not touched as at the time of filing this story.
“Oh as for these people at the Assembly, we have been complaining about the way people have put up buildings in the middle of roads, others too have put up wooden structures, congesting the place, but occasionally they come here to take money from them and that’s all they know, I wish you were here during the rainy season, you would have seen for yourself how floods will take over this place as a result of the unauthorized buildings here”, one of the aggrieved property owners hinted.
Readers would recall that last week Wednesday, one of our front page stories, headlined: “ABOKOBI DCE CLASH WITH POLICE, QUEENMOTHER…OVER SAINT JOHN’S SQUARTTERS”, it reported among many other things that Nana Serwaa Karikari petitioned the property fraud Unit of the Ghana Police Service after she observed that one of the squatters (Margaret Adu-Poku) had allegedly forged documents to cover her structure.
The Police however, after several meetings with Margaret Adu-Poku requested that she presented her documents, but informed them (police) she had sent all her documents to the Abokobi Municipal Assembly.
The police then wrote to the Assembly requesting their assistance; by confirming whether the area in question where Margaret had put up her building was in order or not, and as well “confirm whether she (Margaret) had indeed sent to them her documents”, but to no avail.
Interestingly, when this reporter contacted the MCE yesterday, over why he had not responded to the police, he said he had not received any letter from them, and that they should go to court if they think “somebody has built in an unauthorized place, and that the assembly has not been able to duly address their concerns. You are not the PR for the police”, he added.
Meanwhile, the Police Investigator in charge of the case, one Adam has hinted he would visit the office of the MCE, at the Assembly today, to seek response from him, but in case he (MCE) fails to comply, he would report back to his boss for advice.
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