Tema, May 16, - The Tema
Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has for the past one year stopped issuing and
renewing permits for the siting of containers in the Metropolis.
Mr Maxwell Adu Boateng, Tema
Metropolitan Works Engineer, disclosing this to the Ghana News Agency said
since April 2017, TMA has not issued or renewed permits which allowed residents
to site containers and other structures in the area.
Mr Boateng noted that the
decision to stop issuing the permit came at the back of abuse of siting of
containers in the Metropolis as people indiscriminately put up such structures
at unapproved areas.
He said instead of placing them
at the markets, most of them put their containers on pavements, grassing,
school parks, car parks, and pathways among others.
He announced that as part of the
Assembly’s restoration agenda, his outfit was embarking on a decongestion
exercise targeted at clearing all containers wrongfully sited in all the
communities.
The Metropolitan Engineer
indicated that his office had posted removal notices on all affected containers
giving them an option to either remove them or have them demolished.
According to him, the TMA Works
Department would continue to clear the containers no matter the claims of
owners that “they were paying tolls to the Assembly” because the Assembly was
not were not aware of any payment.
A number of containers had been
demolished in the past three weeks at parts of Tema Community Four including
the frontage of the Narh-Bita Nursing College.
Mr Boateng said to ensure that
containers cleared from the affected areas did not find themselves in another
area, his outfit had resorted to cutting the containers into sheets.
GNA
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