Impending TDC boss demolition may cause Tema West NDC in future – Danite Kweku Mensah writes

The Tema Development Corporation (TDC) Managing Director, Mr Courage Nunepkeku, is about to embark on a very dangerous demolition that will never bring back the NDC into power in the Tema West Constituency again, no matter who becomes the candidate.

Mr Nunepkeku and his team went on a working visit around the city and ended up at Tema Community 5. The team got to Tema Secondary School, and behind the wall of the school are very beautiful gardens that have businesses where more people with prominence in the whole of Tema, including Managers from TDC, patronize on a daily basis.

Where a Restaurant like “Be Nice” is located is indeed at the back of the wall of TEMASSCO, but it’s about three hundred metres away from the school premises. From Be Nice to the school premises is a serious forest, where students don’t even dare to get near.

Moreover, the gardens along that stretch that have businesses in addition are not just gardens with businesses but are places that have really beautified that stretch, making that zone very safe at night for anyone who uses that stretch. They are businesses that the owners didn’t spend less than half a million cedis to get started.

In the video circulating on the New Media, where the TDC Boss is being heard giving them no time to evacuate for the demolition to be carried out, is another shared of no empathy from the TDC Boss.

We want to ask Mr Nunepkeku, please, as you want the people to evacuate a place that they have spent millions of cedis to get it to beautify the City, for you to just go and demolish! Do you have any immediate plans of getting the place beautified under TDC or without the exhibition of sympathy, you just want to put good business people out of business?

You have done the same thing at Tema Community 1 Site 4. You have let your Task Force know that you’re giving a salary of Gh1,100 per month to go and sack Rafiu Akambi from a Garden that he has been there before 1992, and break the small Kiosk that he’s using to sell some artworks, claiming that the land belongs to TDC. Yet you left the people who came to meet him there to be doing business instead of gardening to beautify the community.

It has been more than seven months since you went to demolish TETEBOTAN GARDENS, but the last time, which is a couple of days ago that we used that road to TMA! The place is still bare, with weeds and some structures that haven’t been fully demolished, making the place look very disgusting, especially when it rains.

So, Mr Nunepkeku, we want to know, what are the immediate plans for the places that you are bent on destroying? Or the allegations that you want to clear those places, leave it for some time, then you will release those places to your cronies and take as many as you can for yourself to do your future businesses, is the reason you want to create serious problems for Tema West and East Constituencies?

If TDC doesn’t have any immediate plans to develop those places into something meaningful, more than what you want to destroy, why give them no time to evacuate for you to destroy those places? What at all is your main interest in embarking on this dangerous demolition?

Please, Mr President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, a serious blunder is about to be committed in the Tema enclave, and this will set a very bad precedent for your second term. Please call Mr Nunepkeku to order, for another allegation around what he’s doing is that, NPP people have taken advantage to take more lands in Tema, and he wants to take it back from them.

So if the previous government has taken more land, what has that got to do with gardens that are beautifying the City?

Mr President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, please investigate the TDC Boss, Mr Nunepkeku. If this demolition comes up, then Tema West Constituency is doomed forever.

Concerned Democrat
Danite Kweku Mensah