The Nungua Traditional Council has called on the government to reconstitute the top management of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) as a matter of priority and urgency.
The council also demanded that the TDC acting Managing Director, Ms. Elizabeth Banson, be sacked immediately to make room for the smooth running of the corporation.
The spokesperson for the Nungua Traditional Council, Mr. Stephen Akwetey, Monday said these at a press conference held at the traditional council secretariat at Nungua, near Accra.
Akwetey explained that contrary to the original idea that pieces of land that the council gave out to the government were to be developed into residential and other purposes, the TDC had commercialised most of them without reference to them as lessors who hold the allodia title.
He cautioned that the TDC should not create political problems for the government since it needs absolute peace to tackle the developmental problems of the country.
He recalled that they were maltreated in 1990 by the TDC when they used military force to intimidate, assault and finally made them face the courts because they were fighting for their rights to get back their lands.
The spokesperson suggested that government should order the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to submit its report on the TDC and explain to Ghanaians why petitions addressed to the SFO on the TDC in 2001 have still not been investigated.
The council disclosed that the second phase of the battle to redeem their unused land has begun and that they would soon organise themselves to fight TDC from all fronts, adding "if the police do not exercise discretion and caution, then they would need more police cells for all of us."
The traditional council cautioned against any attempt to politicise the land issue in their quest to get back their bonafide property.
