The Kejetia Traders Association has dragged the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly to court for illegally demolishing 22 commercial stores worth ?800 million belonging to the Association. Joined in the suit are the Metropolitan Chief Executive, the Metropolitan Co-ordinating Director and the Metropolitan Building Inspector.
The plaintiff is praying the court to commit the three persons to prison for contempt, willful, deliberate and wanton disrespect and interference in the administrative of justice for demolishing the stores without any court order while the case was pending before the courts. It also wants the court to recover the ?800 million from the defendants.
The KMA claims that the building did not have a permit and was sited on a major drain, thus posing a danger to residents.
But counsel for the plaintiffs say once the case was pending before the courts, the demolition of the stores was highly contemptuous and abuse of the court’s process.
