The Minority in Parliament says a future National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will prosecute the Chief Executive of the Ghana Trade Fair Company, Dr. Agnes Adu and the Board Chairman, Daniel McKorley, over Sunday’s demolitions.
Minority MPs on the Trade and Industry Committee are convinced government will lose money in the form of judgement debt as a result of the demolitions and the NDC will ensure those responsible are brought to book.
“Anytime there is a change of government, we will let the law work. It won’t be as usual where government will dole out money and pay such debts and allow those who would have supervised this kind of recklessness to go scot-free,” Deputy Ranking member, Yussif Suleman, told JoyNews when Minority MPs on the Committee visited the premises to Wednesday to assess level of damage.
“Those who would have supervised this will be prosecuted. The law will take its course, because if you are entrusted to do such a work, and you sit and allow government to lose money, definitely you would have to pay for that. So that next time, whether it is government A or B, we will learn a lesson from that,” he added.
The demolition which was undertaken by operatives of National Security on Sunday resulted in the destruction of the properties of many tenants.
According to the tenants, the Ghana Trade Fair Company did not give them any notice concerning the demolition leaving them unprepared.
Some have even described the exercise as a political witch hunt but the Ghana Trade Fair Company has denied this.
Yussif Suleman, says the Trade Minister will be summoned to Parliament over the destructions.
“On Friday [February 21] we are going to call on the Speaker to invite the Minister to come and give us reasons why they have destroyed these companies,” he said.
One of the business persons operating there who has been affected, Emmanuel Yemo of the West Africa Construction and Commodities, has said over 100 staff are losing their jobs as a result of the destruction.
He suspects they are being targeted because of a legal action they took against the Trade Fair Company over ownership of the land.
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