Authorities have
begun removing structures situated along streets as part of the process to
begin the construction of the Suame Interchange Project in the Ashanti region.
The Suame
Municipal Assembly issued notices to owners of the structures some weeks ago,
asking them to relocate and allow the contractors to proceed with work.
The structures
that are currently being removed are temporary ones, while the Assembly says
processes are also underway to deal with the permanent structures.
Municipal Chief
Executive for Suame, Maxwell Ofosu Boakye, told Citi News that owners
are fully cooperating with officials carrying out the exercise.
“We made the
announcement two weeks ago, and since this is a project that everyone is
expecting, as of Friday, about 80 percent of them had already started
relocating. As of Monday, because of how well they were cooperating, we decided
to add two more days, which ended yesterday.”
“Less than 10
percent of them were adamant and reluctant to move, so we had to use force. And
as soon as we started doing that, the majority of them asked for a few hours to
move out,” he stated.
Mr. Boakye
therefore thanked the owners of the structures for their cooperation and for
seeing eye to eye on the need for the project to be done.
“I will thank
them because we thought we were going to face a stiffer resistance from them,
but it was more like they themselves saw the need for us to have the project
done,” he stated.
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