AMA razes down hotel around the airport

ccra (Greater Accra), 14th April ?99 ? The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Monday razed down a storey building near the airport earmarked for a hotel which, it said, had been built on a waterway. The exercise was undertaken by the Assembly's task force with the supervision of the military. The hotel sites in six units is between the airport round about and Granada hotel.

The by-pass from the airport to the main road from Opeibea House to Teteh Quarshie Circle was sealed off as the demolition went on. Speaking to newsmen at the site Mr Samuel Addokwei Addo, Chief executive of the assembly, said the exercise had become necessary because the owner had flouted building regulations. He said the owner, who has been identified as Alhaji Yussif, had been warned several times over the last two years to stop the project but he refused to heed the warnings and a court order.

Mr Addokwei Addo said the exercise would continue so as to get developers to respect regulations on building in the metropolis. Attempts to locate the owner of the hotel by newsmen to get his version of the story failed. Besides the main buildings, new air-conditioners, furniture, electrical fittings and cookers as well as a swimming pool were also destroyed.

GNA