Sylvester Tetteh, the Member of Parliament for Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfrom and Deputy Minister for Information, has pledged to investigate the allocation of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) lands to private individuals in the Akwasa area, where a recent demolition took place.
Addressing allegations that he was behind the demolition of a GBC structure, Tetteh dismissed the claims, attributing the controversy to administrative lapses within GBC.
He clarified that the land in question was allocated for a public school under an agreement between GBC and the GA South Municipal Assembly, which carried out the demolition.
The MP also challenged GBC’s Director of Legal Affairs to provide evidence proving he was responsible for demolishing any land other than the parcel allocated to him for development.
“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.
He added, “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’s has been an occupant of that place.
“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 works in GBC had occupied that property and when the estate manager was here and the coordinates were picked, the coordinates that were picked, that 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.”
