The Member of Parliament for Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro and Deputy Minister for Information, Sylvester Tetteh, has denied accusations that he was responsible for the demolition of a bungalow owned by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).
He firmly refuted the claims, stating that he had no involvement in the incident.
Mr Tetteh has also announced that he intends to launch an investigation into the allocation of GBC lands to private individuals in the Akwasa area, where the recent demolition occurred.
He expressed concern over the management of GBC properties and stressed the need for transparency in the handling of such assets.
In an interview with the media on Friday, November 22, following the allegations, Mr Tetteh dismissed the reports as unfounded, suggesting that the negative publicity stemmed from internal administrative failures within GBC.
He called for clearer communication and accountability from GBC regarding the status of their properties.
He further clarified that there was an agreement in place between the Ga South Municipal Assembly and GBC, permitting the use of the disputed land for the construction of a public school.
According to Mr Tetteh, this agreement led to the demolition of the structure, a process he insists was conducted solely by the Municipal Assembly.
The MP also challenged the Director of Legal Affairs at GBC to provide concrete evidence that he was responsible for demolishing a different parcel of land.
He maintained that the area in question was specifically allocated to him for development, and any claims to the contrary should be substantiated with proof.
“As a sector, Deputy Minister, and my boss will approve that, I will institute investigations into how GBC lands have ended up building private homes here where we are standing. So he should get ready. If he’s a Director of Legal and he dared to report his sector deputy minister to the police and had the gut to put my picture on their social media handle.”
“I want to deal with the matter of lies that have been put out about me that I have forcefully demolished the bungalow. What he claimed to be GBC property, a bungalow, there’s no bungalow here. There’s an old dilapidated structure here and let me tell you, there’s one man who has been an occupant of that place.”
“They’ve been collecting money from him for years. No GBC staff had ever occupied that place for a very long time. It’s a boy’s quarters dilapidated building. Nobody works in GBC had occupied that property and when the estate manager was here and the coordinates were picked, the coordinates that were picked, that included that whole area. So if you want to build there and an old dilapidated structure is there, what do you do?”
“Don’t you clear it before you do the construction? So this is the site plan I’ll share with you. This is a letter sent by Kwame Waja on the instructions of the Director General. Where have I gone wrong? Where has the assembly gone wrong? The municipal assembly has not done anything untoward. So this issue of a lawless MP, if I’m lawless for the sake of my community, I’ll continue to be lawless.”
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