AMA to provide tents for affected old Fadama residents

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced its intention to provide tents for the slum dwellers who had their structures destroyed at Old Fadama on Wednesday.

Making this known on Good Evening Ghana, the AMA Chief Executive Officer, Mohammed Adjei Sowah indicated: “What we have done is to provide them with tents in that area”.

These squatters are going to sleep under tents in an open space until the dredging exercise is over and move back to their ‘destination’.

Over 1,000 slum dwellers at Old Fadama in Accra were rendered homeless, and many of them, with their families, forced to sleep in the open Wednesday evening after the Accra Metropolitan Assembly demolished wooden structures to pave way for the dredging of the Korle lagoon.

Most of the affected residents who spoke to the media expressed disappointment about the fact that government did not wait till the pandemic was over though the same AMA had asked all citizens to stay home to avoid further spread of the Coronavirus.

These residents, having nowhere to lay their heads, settled on sleeping in the open spaces - clothes, mattresses and cardboards or on bare concrete on shop fronts.

Meanwhile, the AMA has refuted claims that they embarked on the exercise, explaining that, it was a voluntary exercise carried out by the leadership of the slum dwellers.