News:
February 19, 2014
The Tema Development Corporation(TDC) has discredited allegations that the houses and structures it demolished recently at Adjen Kojo was to make way for a Chinese firm to acquire the said land and build a shopping mall.
The TDC explained that it has rather entered into an agreement with a Chinese firm whose technology of building it is adopting to put up terrace houses on the demolished site.
At a meeting with the Parliamentary Committee on Works and Housing in Parliament on Wednesday, the Managing Director of TDC, Mr Joe Abbey refuted the assertion by the MP for Tema West, Irene Naa Torshie Addo on the floor of the House that over 500 houses and structures were demolished in the exercise which has been widely condemned by a section of the public.
He said the TDC demolished only 65 structures and houses in that area which obviously cannot contain about 500 houses as claimed by the MP.
Mr Joe Abbey dared the victims to provide evidence that they bought the land from the TDC and if that was established and compensation required it would not hesitate to appease the affected persons.
He noted that the TDC which is required to give notice to the affected residents normally in such cases gave notices as far back as 2011 but the illegal occupants failed to comply with the warnings.
Mr Joe Abbey further cleared the air that the TDC had never taken any property rates from the residents as was earlier reported in the media.
The Parliamentary Committee on Works and Housing has asked the TDC to furnish the committee with certain important information to enable the committee further its work.