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A Kumasi businessman, Nana Asante Frempong, has threatened to drag the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and Messrs Jiangsu Jiangdu Company, a Chinese Construction Company to court for denying him and other residents at Ahensan Estate in Kumasi the right of access to their houses.
The Company has blocked the road for the construction of a youth sports complex, which is being funded by the Chinese government and the Ghana Government.
According to Nana Frempong,he has been compelled to include the Chinese Construction Company in his legal battle because the Company has the full compliment of the KMA, otherwise it could not have blocked the road with no regard for residents and traffic.
Expressing his dismay at a Press conference in Kumasi on Tuesday, Nana Asante Frempong, who is also the Managing Director of Rosamond Memorial Hostel said he has been at a loss as to why the KMA should encourage the creation of a public nuisance and set up a bad precedent.
He said all his rejoinders to the KMA had received no positive response to his plight, and said all this was happening at a time when the nation is celebrating 50 years of Independence.
"Are Ghanaians second class citizens in our own country to suffer injustices and abuse of our fundamental civic rights by an Appointee of a government that believes in the rule of law, a government that proclaimed an era of Golden Age of Business", he asked.
He said the financiers of the hostel project which has completed the hostel "were on his neck" for their money, stressing that he took a loan in May last year to enable him to complete the project in September of the same year.
Nana Frempong said since the access road to the hostel had been blocked his efforts to get the university students to the hostel has not yielded any positive results.
He said the situation has led to a serious loss of earnings to him amounting to over GH¢40,000.
When the authorities of KMA were contacted they said the project was a government project and they were just supporting it.
Source: GNA
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