Traders and residents living around President Akufo-Addo’s Nima residence have started packing out of their structures after being asked to leave.
The artisans and residents were engaged by National Security to pack out of their structures since the area around the first gentleman’s residence is now a security zone.
Thursday morning, Joy News’ Maxwell Agbagba visited the evictees to interact with them.
As at the time the team got there, most of them had destroyed their makeshift structures and had packed their belongings ready to leave.
A woman, about 60 years old who agreed to speak, cried her heart out at the development.
She told the Joy News team she had lived in the area for 34 years. She laments that the compensation paid them by the President will not be enough to start a new life and that she will leave to the village but her children will live around.
“I will come and visit them frequently,” she said.
“When it is time for elections, we will all come back to vote for him again,” she moaned in a sarcastic but very sorrowful tone.
A young lady who spoke to Maxwell off camera could not hold back her tears as she said she has nowhere else to go in the capital.
“I don’t have any relative in Accra, I have to go back to the village and start my life all over again,” she said.
Akufo-Addo after being sworn into office in 2017 towed his predecessors’ line of refusing to move into the Flagstaff house.
Source: myjoyonline.com
