MP reacts to claims of demolishing GBC bungalows

Deputy Minister for Information, Sylvester Tetteh, has refuted claims of being behind the demolition of some bungalows belonging to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).

Reacting to the claims, the Member of Parliament for Ngleshie Amanfro clarified that the demolition exercise arose from an agreement between the GA South Municipal Assembly and GBC to use the land in question for a public school, which led to the demolition of the structure—a process he maintains was carried out by the Assembly.

"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 had the impudence 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 spilt 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," he was quoted in a report by Citinewsroom.com.

"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 who works in GBC had occupied that property, and when the estate manager was here, and the coordinates were picked, the coordinates 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 want, if I'm lawless for the sake of my community, I'll continue to be lawless," the MP said.

In a series of posts on November 21, 2024, GBC, Ghana's state broadcaster, accused Sylvester Tetteh of illegally demolishing its bungalows at Weija.

In a series of posts shared on its official handle, GTV Ghana, on Thursday, November 21, 2024, the media house asked the Ghana Police Service to intervene in the matter and stop the illegal demolition.

However, the deputy minister denied the claims and vowed to investigate the source of the allegation.

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