The area of the Achimota Golf Course, in Accra, early yesterday morning, was the scene of wailing and lamentation as a number of unauthorised buildings, some nearing completion, were pulled down on court orders. Scores of people, including owners, sympathisers and the curious, thronged the area to witness the demolition. The exercise caused a huge traffic jam as the normal shortcut for drivers escaping traffic on other routes became a traffic trap. The buildings are said to have been marked for demolition long ago because they were sited on lands that belong to the Achimota School. Speaking to the Times, Emmanuel Agbeko Mensah, District Court Registrar, said the exercise was as a result of an order by the Accra Fast Track High Court to pull down seven structures which have been illegally constructed on a parcel of land, property of the Achimota School. This followed a motion by the school’s board of directors last year to claim portions of the school land encroached upon by some individuals. Hearing of the petition, started in January last year, but some of the encroachers failed to appear before the court despite notices served them to that effect, Mr Mensah said. He said in January this year, the court gave the encroachers final letters to vacate the land but they refused and the court had no alternative than to order the demolition of the structures. Speaking to the Times, one of those affected by the demolition, Eddie Nash, said he received a phone call at about 7 a.m. yesterday by his workers that some court officials had come to demolish his structure. He said by the time he got there, the exercise had already begun. Mr Nash claimed to have bought the land from the Owoo family six years ago and did not know that it belonged to Achimota school. Source: The Ghanaian Times