A Principal Rent Officer at the Rent Control Department, Mr. Twum Ampofo, has said the department has received several complaints from tenants that they are being ejected from their residences by landlords and landladies following the oil discovery in the Western Region. He said some homeowners in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis are ejecting their tenants in order to convert such places of abode into offices and stalls for the oil companies and businesses. This, he said in an interview with the GNA, had resulted in litigation between landlords and tenants. Mr. Ampofo said his outfit had invited the feuding parties for amicable settlement and urged persons facing wrongful ejections to report to the department for peaceful resolution. He said, legally, if a homeowner wanted to eject a tenant, the former must serve a quit notice to the latter one month in advance so that the tenant could look for alternative accommodation. Mr. Ampofo said house owners were not supposed to take more than six months rent advance from tenants. He appealed to tenants to look out for basic amenities such as water, electricity, kitchen, toilet and bathhouses before renting any house. Source: Times