Pandemonium broke out within the premises of Ghana�s parliament on Tuesday February 2, after some laborers working on the famous Job 600 building which is to serve as offices for Ghanaian legislators and some drivers of Members of Parliament clashed over an alleged stone throwing incident at the project site.
But for the intervention of the Chairman of the Water Resources, Works and Housing Committee of Parliament, Hon David Assuming and Police personnel stationed within the premises of the nation�s legislature, there would have been a major blood bath, as both sides armed themselves with crude weapons like stones, hammers, wood logs and screw drivers ready to fight tooth and nail.
The drivers had accused the laborers of hitting and critically wounding one of them with a big stone for no apparent reason.
In response, the outraged drivers forced their way into the Job 600 area seeking to pull down the towering scaffold on top of which the laborers were working.
The angry drivers have vowed to teach the laborers a lesson in the coming weeks, a situation that could see renovation works on the much talked about Job 600 building coming to a standstill.
In an interview with Citi News, Chairman of the Water Resources, Works and Housing Committee of Parliament, Hon David Assuming said the Marshal�s department of the House intends to take immediate steps to avert future clashes between the two sides.
�As you can see work has started on the Job 600 building and the workers are doing their work, unfortunately the individual drivers of the MP�s also sit close by and I think it is hazardous to their health because if they don�t take care anything can fall and hit anybody, however we have to resolve this issue that is why the field marshal has stated that we have to relocate the drivers to a different place to prevent future clashes.�
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