Court order, redevelopment plans - The backstory to the Fantasy Dome demolition

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Wasteman 1 year ago

ITS UNFORTUNATE BUT…
EVEN IF THEY GAVE HIM 100 YEARS TO MOVE HE WONT…ITS HOW WE ARE AS GHANAIANS…HE SAW OTHER STRUCTURES BEING DESTROYED BUT DECIDED TO STAY PUT

ITS UNFORTUNATE BUT…
EVEN IF THEY GAVE HIM 100 YEARS TO MOVE HE WONT…ITS HOW WE ARE AS GHANAIANS…HE SAW OTHER STRUCTURES BEING DESTROYED BUT DECIDED TO STAY PUT
Bobby Stones 1 year ago

Why couldn't he sort a different avenue for his project, if I were in his shoes I would not invest so much into a business that have uncertain future. He mentioned $5m and $20m worth at the time of demolition. People should s ...
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Why couldn't he sort a different avenue for his project, if I were in his shoes I would not invest so much into a business that have uncertain future. He mentioned $5m and $20m worth at the time of demolition. People should stop exploiting the public with party cards. The current developers should take cue from what is going, it could be their turn in the near future, when the table turns.
Fools Paradise 1 year ago

So injunction was to get the court to ask your landlord, and the investors and contractors redeveloping the site to fold their arms and wait for you earn more from the dome whilst their costs escalate. They should rather take ...
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So injunction was to get the court to ask your landlord, and the investors and contractors redeveloping the site to fold their arms and wait for you earn more from the dome whilst their costs escalate. They should rather take you to court to pay fully for the cost of delays they have to incur. You are able to wait because of the insignificant rent you pay. If you were paying market rates nobody will force to move from a dusty construction site
Akos 1 year ago

What is Assase, Wuntumi, Yaa Asantewa and all the over two thousand Twi radio stations doing in Ga/Accra.What is the interest of Assase radio in La/ Ga, Land?Who is behind the demolition?Credible journalist must investigat ...
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What is Assase, Wuntumi, Yaa Asantewa and all the over two thousand Twi radio stations doing in Ga/Accra.What is the interest of Assase radio in La/ Ga, Land?Who is behind the demolition?Credible journalist must investigate and report well on this story.
Joy 1 year ago

Does Ghana has money in the coffers to develop this place? Look Ghana is a shit place. So nana addo couldn't buy this building on cheaper cost from the owner to add what plan intends on doing on this land. I against the pull ...
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Does Ghana has money in the coffers to develop this place? Look Ghana is a shit place. So nana addo couldn't buy this building on cheaper cost from the owner to add what plan intends on doing on this land. I against the pulling down of this building. Very sad.
Atta Panyin 1 year ago

Does Government develop everything. Isn't it the same private sector?

Does Government develop everything. Isn't it the same private sector?
Showdown 1 year ago

Blockhead. Dont you get it that its private sector developers of permanent world class infrastructure and facilities, not government funded. That is how modern convention centres and exhibition parks are financed and construc ...
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Blockhead. Dont you get it that its private sector developers of permanent world class infrastructure and facilities, not government funded. That is how modern convention centres and exhibition parks are financed and constructed, and managed
Korvi 1 year ago

LAND GRABBERS at it again? Sir John as The Forestry CEO was sharing the forests as no one's business. Reports & videos on John Kumah has revealed a lot. What's Akufo Addo/ Bawumiah's philosophy? To impoverish Ghanaians and st ...
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LAND GRABBERS at it again? Sir John as The Forestry CEO was sharing the forests as no one's business. Reports & videos on John Kumah has revealed a lot. What's Akufo Addo/ Bawumiah's philosophy? To impoverish Ghanaians and steal for their families/Descendants? Posterity will surely visit them & their descendants..
Telecel/Vodafone stealing Data from customers 1 year ago

Broadband data has started disappearing after Vodafone takeover by Telecel. This is how these international companies make their money. Consumer protection and NCA should investigate

Broadband data has started disappearing after Vodafone takeover by Telecel. This is how these international companies make their money. Consumer protection and NCA should investigate
Me nte gyae 1 year ago

That delay tactics that some Ghanaians employ to frustrate rightful owners are not helping anyone. We must always consider the benefits of the majority of the people but not an individual and we must stop politicising everyth ...
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That delay tactics that some Ghanaians employ to frustrate rightful owners are not helping anyone. We must always consider the benefits of the majority of the people but not an individual and we must stop politicising everything. If you are a tenant and your contract expires, the decision to renew the contract rest on the landlord either to renew it or otherwise. Even if the rented area is to be used for a different purpose or not the landlord can refuse to renew the contract. If the tenant feels he has been given a raw deal, he can seek a redress in court.

CHARGE HIM FOR THE COST OF DEMOLITION.! 1 year ago

A fool and his money always parted. You know the land does not belong to you and you put up a structure worth $5m. Are you that stupid. Maybe he wantrd to use kuluulu to steal the labd like they always do. He should be charg ...
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A fool and his money always parted. You know the land does not belong to you and you put up a structure worth $5m. Are you that stupid. Maybe he wantrd to use kuluulu to steal the labd like they always do. He should be charged for the cost of demolition.
Moses 1 year ago

We understand

We understand
YOUR GOD IS ALSO A BIG PROBLEM! 1 year ago

He should have seen this coning in his spiritual eyes and sdvised you to do the right thing in terms of documentation.

This bloke God who has misdirected you, yet you going back to him to take things to him. Are you sure h ...
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He should have seen this coning in his spiritual eyes and sdvised you to do the right thing in terms of documentation.

This bloke God who has misdirected you, yet you going back to him to take things to him. Are you sure he is the right guy to seek counsel from worse to report Tradefair site to?
Atta Panyin 1 year ago

Stop the nonsense. Your tenancy has ended. You are currently on a 24hr construction site where due to safety protocols no public event can be held for the next few years. What we're you waiting for? Don't you know that there ...
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Stop the nonsense. Your tenancy has ended. You are currently on a 24hr construction site where due to safety protocols no public event can be held for the next few years. What we're you waiting for? Don't you know that there are stages of costly construction such as excavation and construction of underground drainage, sewerage and power lines that you are delaying. The client cannot delay works on your section alone, who will pay for it later?
Atta Panyin 1 year ago

Tenancy means you did not expect to be there forever. So if you were not planning for a permanent site who cares. Does it even make business sense to build a super expensive temporary dome on very cheap rented land, earmarked ...
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Tenancy means you did not expect to be there forever. So if you were not planning for a permanent site who cares. Does it even make business sense to build a super expensive temporary dome on very cheap rented land, earmarked for redevelopment over more than 2 decades?
He was planning to steal! 1 year ago

He was planning to steal the land by hook or crook. This is how the numerous land cases across the country started.

He was planning to steal the land by hook or crook. This is how the numerous land cases across the country started.
NO CASE! 1 year ago

My friend you have no case. Just lick your wounds and next time make wise investments on land you legally own.

My friend you have no case. Just lick your wounds and next time make wise investments on land you legally own.
Massa take your done somewhere else ! 1 year ago

Leslie you had a contract, it has expired, but you STILL want to stay there! I mean how? If you were the trade fair ppl will you do that?

They gave the place to you for a number of years in the contract. Though they wanted ...
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Leslie you had a contract, it has expired, but you STILL want to stay there! I mean how? If you were the trade fair ppl will you do that?

They gave the place to you for a number of years in the contract. Though they wanted to expand, they waited patiently for you for 12months for your lease to expire before asking you to leave. They have done NO WRONG! You knew your lease was going to expire too so you should have started looking somewhere else to transfer your dome when your contract expires but you think you could pay a judge to give you an injunction? Corruption is what has gotten you to where you are now with the dome brought down.

Pick up your losses and learn from this lesson. You can’t eat your cake and have it. The GTFC did what they had to do and took back what rightfully belongs to them . Finito
Nii bi Nii 1 year ago

The Akan political criminal leaders have not yet paid for the acquisation of trade fair land since 1962 but yet they have land title,how can they have a new 99 years list for a land which they never paid for?which criminal la ...
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The Akan political criminal leaders have not yet paid for the acquisation of trade fair land since 1962 but yet they have land title,how can they have a new 99 years list for a land which they never paid for?which criminal land commissioners issue that fake documents for them,but they should wait because the La-people would never rest until what belongs to them will sureley will come back to them one day.
Tve Original Owners of Your Land Were Akwamus! 1 year ago

Did you come with any land during your Homowo journeys from Ile-Ife.

Did you come with any land during your Homowo journeys from Ile-Ife.

Okyeman. 1 year ago

Kwashiaa buulu, didn't you know the Akwamus too, where they are presently, it originally belonged to the Ewes? When they Akwamus were pushed from Akans areas to settle between krobo and Ewes. Don't you know in Ghana, every tr ...
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Kwashiaa buulu, didn't you know the Akwamus too, where they are presently, it originally belonged to the Ewes? When they Akwamus were pushed from Akans areas to settle between krobo and Ewes. Don't you know in Ghana, every tribe has migration history? Another buulu buulu gyimigyimi odwan
Showdown 1 year ago

Correct question. Concentrate on modernising the lands you have not told by building rental units, or you are fighting over the lands just to resell to the Akans you hate but whose money you fight yourselves with landguards

Correct question. Concentrate on modernising the lands you have not told by building rental units, or you are fighting over the lands just to resell to the Akans you hate but whose money you fight yourselves with landguards
Legal 1 year ago

In Ghana it's easy to demolish than to build. National cathedral came with many demolishes but tell me what is happening there. World most expensive hole as we speak. The mantra is: if it's not us it must not be them. You e ...
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In Ghana it's easy to demolish than to build. National cathedral came with many demolishes but tell me what is happening there. World most expensive hole as we speak. The mantra is: if it's not us it must not be them. You either belong to them or they will destroy you and bring you down.
Mary Mavis GYAMFIWAA 1 year ago

But how on earth could the state give portion of the the land to a private individual and they watched on while he put up a permanent structure? Whose idea is it that a state property should be rented for a permanent investme ...
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But how on earth could the state give portion of the the land to a private individual and they watched on while he put up a permanent structure? Whose idea is it that a state property should be rented for a permanent investment? Abd how much didvtecstate benefit from this corrupt arrangement? Even if the tenancy agreement ended on 31st December 2023, is it not too shirt a time to enforce relocation? Again was immediately vacating from the property and handing over to the Ghana Trade Fair Authority, part of the tenancy agreement? Please do us a favor by publishing the tenancy agreement.
Did he not read the agreement! 1 year ago

The day he signed the agreement is the day he should have starting looking for an alternative arrangement at the end of 2023. That is none of the responsibility nor business of Trade Fair Site!

The day he signed the agreement is the day he should have starting looking for an alternative arrangement at the end of 2023. That is none of the responsibility nor business of Trade Fair Site!
Joe Inkala 1 year ago

Why r we Ghanaians like breaking the laws of the country. It is wrong in the first place to build on Trade Fair Site. This place is government land. Why would u take the owner of the land to court. Who gv u the land. This is ...
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Why r we Ghanaians like breaking the laws of the country. It is wrong in the first place to build on Trade Fair Site. This place is government land. Why would u take the owner of the land to court. Who gv u the land. This is one of the reasons we r progressing slowly.
Yaw 1 year ago

Are court injunctions perpetual? Why would a tenancy agreement ending in December 2023 escalate to this height. Our arm chair journalists will not dig into this to do proper research. They will post any crap and appear in the ...
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Are court injunctions perpetual? Why would a tenancy agreement ending in December 2023 escalate to this height. Our arm chair journalists will not dig into this to do proper research. They will post any crap and appear in the news as social media bloggers.
OZYMANDIAS 1 year ago

Indiscipline is the bane of most Ghanaians. The contract for the Fantasy Dome’s operations expired last year, but the proprietor was holding on to continue his business without caring a hoot for the owners of the Trade Fair ...
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Indiscipline is the bane of most Ghanaians. The contract for the Fantasy Dome’s operations expired last year, but the proprietor was holding on to continue his business without caring a hoot for the owners of the Trade Fair site to work on developing the site. Now that his company has been demolished, he is running to the press to utter nonsense. It is this type of indiscipline that is killing Ghanaians.
ananseba 1 year ago

Mr Quaynor is wrong when he states that 'Ghana is not alawless country. Ghana is definately a LAWLESS country. Look at how long it takes for cases to go through our courts. Cecilia Dapaah stole millins but she ia walking free ...
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Mr Quaynor is wrong when he states that 'Ghana is not alawless country. Ghana is definately a LAWLESS country. Look at how long it takes for cases to go through our courts. Cecilia Dapaah stole millins but she ia walking free while those who stole a little bit from her stolen millions are being taken through the mill.
Boss 1 year ago

Have no qualms about this demolition. Only issue is that the space will be left un or half developed which would make no sense as it would have been better to have a functioning structure and continue to charge rent. Same as ...
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Have no qualms about this demolition. Only issue is that the space will be left un or half developed which would make no sense as it would have been better to have a functioning structure and continue to charge rent. Same as national cathedral which in all likelihood is going to be a white elephant.

Yiadom 1 year ago

When you try to take someone's property by dubious means you end up losing your money,

When you try to take someone's property by dubious means you end up losing your money,
Adams 1 year ago

The woman just takes the law into her own hands. She deliberately avoid court BAILIFF service and do what she wants at night..She did it to the other tenants including Mr Archer, Mr Yemoh and others. She should continue to c ...
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The woman just takes the law into her own hands. She deliberately avoid court BAILIFF service and do what she wants at night..She did it to the other tenants including Mr Archer, Mr Yemoh and others. She should continue to cause financial losses to the state,but time will tell
Kee 1 year ago

I plead with those coming from abroad to invest in Ghana to follow due process. Any company or individual who leases a property for a period will start packing before the end date. They’ll never wait to resort to court case ...
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I plead with those coming from abroad to invest in Ghana to follow due process. Any company or individual who leases a property for a period will start packing before the end date. They’ll never wait to resort to court cases, they do the needful peacefully. Sorry for this, but let’s practice what we learned from outside.
Showdown 1 year ago

This objectively and ask relevant questions to enlighten the public. Trade Fair Grounds is undergoing 100% redevelopment. Its now a massive construction site. When was the last time an event was hosted at the FD? When was the ...
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This objectively and ask relevant questions to enlighten the public. Trade Fair Grounds is undergoing 100% redevelopment. Its now a massive construction site. When was the last time an event was hosted at the FD? When was the first notice served to the tenant, was it different from all other tenants. What steps had he taken to leave the construction site. Can the project construction go on with FD still intact. How will the underground drainage, power and utility lines without demolishing and excavating the grounds. Once the contractors had deployed and started construction who would pay for the cost of delays, and its impact on other stages of the contract and investment attraction. No one has asked these questions and are rather defending one tenant's interest over the interest of several investors and contractors involved in the multi million dollar project. If his small portion with temporary structures cost him USD 5 m, can he imagine how much the redevelopment of the entire land with permanent structures cost and the implications of cost over runs due to delays cause by him. Now instead of move his structures he preferred to go to court to stop the legitimate exercise of the right of the landlord to eject the intransigent tenant. After delaying for more than two years of notice he wasn't going to leave with out a fight, so he could lay claim to20m for a 5m investment, despite the very law rent paid for occupancy of this land. This rather a tenant bullying his landlord to breaking point.

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