Kejetia project to be commissioned soon

The Kejetia Redevelopment Project will soon be commissioned after private structures built on strategic sites that are delaying the completion of the project have been agreed to be pulled down.

The agreement came when the Kumasi Traditional Council and Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) inspected the project on Tuesday January 30, 2018, to assess the level of progress and the challenges facing the construction firm that has delayed the 198 million dollar project.

A private businessman, Karikari Asante, CEO  of All States Constructions Limited, who is in a legal tussle with the KMA over demolition of some of his buildings at the Kejetia, is demanding compensation from KMA, before allowing the Assembly to pull down his other buildings, to pave way for the project to go on.

The project, which started in 2015 and scheduled to be completed in January 2018, has to be delayed due to impending land litigation involving the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and a private businessman over land ownership.

Kumasi Traditional Council led by Bantamahene Baffour Owusu Amankwatia VI, after the inspection told the media that all structures, including a bank and a hotel, will all be pulled down to allow the contractor to have access to complete their work.

“We the Traditional Council will not allow anybody’s personal interest to interrupt the work of the contractor, we will make sure that all structures that will block the beautification of the project will be pulled down,” he said.

The KMA Coordinator, Michael Atta Ogye, speaking in interview with Otec News’ Francis Appiah, expressed his gratitude to the Traditional Council for their timely intervention in solving the dispute and believed, the project will soon be completed to ease both human and traffic the congestion in the city.

The project is scheduled to be commissioned in July 2018, barring any unforeseeable hitch.

Source: otecfmghana.com/Francis Appiah