{"id":127676,"date":"2015-06-24T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=127676"},"modified":"2015-06-24T09:09:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T09:09:51","slug":"release-roadmap-for-demolition-exercises-mp-to-ama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=127676","title":{"rendered":"Release roadmap for demolition exercises \u2013 MP to AMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, Dominic Nitiwul has called on the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to provide a roadmap for all planned demolition exercises in the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, such roadmap will help residents of areas earmarked for such exercises to plan ahead and \u00a0relocate before the scheduled date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;DKvfJ8EuwvCCcDfQTlUh3HwOIynpnIqY&#8221;]Dominic Nitiwul&#8217;s call follows the demolition of structures at\u00a0Old Fadama by the AMA last Saturday which led to riots on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The AMA has explained that the demoltion was to pave way for the dredging of the Korle Lagoon in order to forestall flooding in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But some of the<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/residents took to the streets on Monday\" target=\"_blank\">residents took to the streets on Monday<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to protest their displeasure about the demolition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of them also <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/22\/parts-of-state-house-vandalised-by-angry-protesters\/\"><strong>vandalized the State House<\/strong><\/a><\/span> destroying some properties there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the Floor of Parliament on Tuesday, Dominic Nitiwul, who is also the Member of Parliament for Bimbilla, urged the AMA to immediately put further demolition on hold pending the release of a road map.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo the AMA should stop the demolition and give us a roadmap, nobody is saying they should not do their work. But because of lack of planning you leave the people at the despair of the weather and you are actually leading them to commit crime,\u201d he intimated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the MP, failure to issue a roadmap could plunge the country into security problems saying, \u201cthe way they are going about things it could create a security problem in the country. \u00a0No wonder Parliament was broken into yesterday. If MPs were in the chamber, we would not know what would have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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