{"id":123459,"date":"2015-06-10T06:08:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=123459"},"modified":"2015-06-10T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:00:05","slug":"amas-demolition-exercise-commendable-k-t-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=123459","title":{"rendered":"AMA’s demolition exercise commendable – K.T Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minority Spokesperson on Energy, K.T Hammond has declared his unflinching support for government’s decision to demolish buildings on waterways.<\/p>\n

Following floods and a deadly explosion at a GOIL fuel station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has began demolishing fuel stations and other structures which it said have been built on waterways.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”XxfRmYUJ2gT1eV6IKsB4B487LXwkEJFr”]Some Ghanaians have described the move as a knee jerk reaction which will not yield any result but the Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa disagreed, arguing that the move will prevent floods in the future.<\/p>\n

“We need to clear the constructions on waterways so that we don’t have a repeat of what happened,” the MP said.<\/p>\n

He described the construction of buildings along waterways as a “serious act of indiscipline,” adding that “no one has the right to block a waterway for their own personal benefit.”<\/p>\n

MMDAs can be sued over demolitions – Lawyer<\/strong><\/p>\n

A legal practitioner Egbert Faibille has however said\u00a0that owners of demolished structures can drag<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to court if constitutional provisions for such exercises are not adhered to.<\/p>\n

According to Egbert Faibille, the constitution specifies what the Assembly should do before pulling down structures.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0noted that according to the Local Government Act 1993, Act 462, section 52 \u201cwhere a physical development has been or is being carried out without a permit contrary to this act or the conditions incorporated in the permit are not complied with, a district planning authority may give a written notice in the prescribed form to the owner of the land requiring the owner\u2026to show cause in written\u2026why the unauthorized development should not be demolished.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minority Spokesperson on Energy, K.T Hammond has declared his unflinching support for government’s decision to demolish buildings on waterways. Following floods and a deadly explosion at a GOIL fuel station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has began demolishing fuel stations and other structures which it said have been built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":75336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-123459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}