The TDC Development Company Limited has said it was not part of Friday’s failed eviction of some occupants within the Kaiser Flats at Tema Community 4, its Communications Manager, Dorothy Asare-Kumah, has clarified.
According to her, bailiffs had been sent to enforce a court order for the affected families to vacate the flats.
The explanation comes following reports in the media on Friday June 30 that officials of the company, formerly Tema Development Corporation, had together with the police, stormed the Kaiser Flats to eject over 400 occupants in line with a Tema High Court order in 2013 for persons occupying the structure to vacate the flats as they had failed structural integrity tests.
But in a swift clarification, Ms Asare-Kumah told Class News: “The exercise on Friday did not involve the TDC [Development Company Limited],” adding the company had won judgement from the court to demolish four, not all 400, of the Kaiser Flats since they had been deemed “unfit for habitation”.
Following years of tenants “dilly-dallying” in finding alternative accommodation, the court ordered its bailiffs to move to the flats to enforce its order on Friday, after which the TDC would have received the all-clear to demolish the four flats.
The TDC however said its staff was not present at Friday’s exercise, with Ms Asare-Kumah saying those who arrived at the scene to evict occupants were “purely the court bailiffs”.
The eviction exercise, though, was abandoned after some disturbances and the intervention of the MP for the area.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
