The Gomoa West District Assembly would soon demolish unauthorised structures in its capital Apam but will not pay compensation to the owners.
Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, the District Chief Executive said this at a meeting with assembly members and some market women on Tuesday, consequently tasked the area councils and assembly members to ensure that all ongoing illegal construction works at Apam were stopped immediately.
He directed owners of unauthorized structures to remove them and to stop building new ones.
Mr. Aidoo-Mensah said unauthorized structures did not promote sanity and sustainable development and some of them had blocked the road to the Apam Cold Store, causing congestion.
On the population of the area, Mr. Aidoo-Mensah said the failure of the people to register during the recent biometric registration exercise, made it impossible for the district to be divided into two though the area was too vast for one administration.
He therefore appealed to the people to take similar exercises in future seriously in their own interest.
The market women appealed to the chief of Apam, Nana Effrim X and the District Assembly to find them a place to sell because they were being threatened with ejection from their land owners.**
Source: GhanaWeb
