Lekma Warns Squatters Of Prosecution

The Chief Executive of the Ledzokuku Municipal Assembly (LEKMA), Mordecai Quarshie, has cautioned squatters on the Manet Junction connected the Spintex Road whose structures were precocious demolished to refrain from erecting caller ones.
He said offenders would beryllium made to look prosecution.

The warning, helium said, formed portion of efforts by the assembly to enforce bye-laws successful the municipality to guarantee that the workout was not successful vain.

The assembly carried retired a demolition workout astir a period earlier to wide containers and different amerciable structures astatine the Manet Junction area.

Mr Quarshie told the Daily Graphic that the assembly had enactment monitoring procedures successful place, and would not hesitate to prosecute anyone recovered erecting caller structures astatine the site.

Exercise
The exercise, executed with the enactment of the Ayawaso West and La Dadekotopon Municipal assemblies, saw implicit 200 amerciable structures, immoderate of which served arsenic residential accommodation, garages, vulcanising shops, and eateries, brought down by the assembly’s taskforce.

While immoderate structures were salvaged by their owners, others were wholly destroyed successful the exercise.

Some of the victims described the workout arsenic inhumane and condemned the assembly for the mode successful which the workout was carried out.

Some blamed officials of the assembly for giving them lone an impromptu notice, though others admitted determination were immoderate announcements to that effect.

Notice
However, Mr Quarshie, who led the operation, said capable announcement was served connected the affected people.

He said squatters were fixed capable clip to vacate the area, adding that isolated from the eviction markings connected the structures, the assembly besides engaged the radical and advised them connected the request to permission the area.

He said the occupants had been determination without authorisation, and that the workout became indispensable to marque mode for immoderate roadworthy operation earmarked for the place.

The road, helium said, would link the Spintex Road to Nmai Dzor.

“I privation to nonstop a beardown informing to anyone readying connected going backmost to the tract that the assembly would prosecute them without fail,” helium said.