{"id":364913,"date":"2017-10-25T05:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364913"},"modified":"2017-10-25T05:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:59:17","slug":"tdc-dragged-to-court-for-gh%e2%82%b55-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364913","title":{"rendered":"TDC dragged to court for GH\u20b55 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent Ghana, a civil society group, has sued Tema Development Company (TDC) for GH\u20b55m for allegedly violating the fundamental human rights of some residents of Sakumono in the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/28\/we-didnt-know-about-any-cocaine-tema-port-management\/\">Tema<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Metropolis during a demolition exercise.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nN9oNfZLDk59AXNt9Rbt6sIU3v7uGPmW&#8221;]The suit is seeking orders, directives, and declarations aimed at securing the basic human and economic rights of the affected persons.<\/p>\n<p>The suit, dated August 31, 2017, was filed at the Human Rights Division of Tema High Court A, and is expected to be moved on Monday, October 30, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to the writ, on March 3, 2017, a TDC taskforce, without any court order, demolished the workshop, residence and animal ranch of victims.<\/p>\n<p>It argued that this unlawful act rendered families homeless, causing loss of earning and inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>The complainants alleged that the taskforce used pepper spray on victims of the demolishing exercise, causing eye injury to some of them.<\/p>\n<p>It said a complaint was filed with the Sakumono Police, who arrested Alhaji TDC, the man who is said to have used pepper spray on the victims, but was later granted bail.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent Ghana said it had to resort to the law court after attempts to reason with TDC over the actions of its taskforce proved futile.<\/p>\n<p>The civil society group urged the Inspector-General of Police, David Asante-Apeatu, to caution the Sakumono Police to serve with integrity or face similar court action in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Finder Newspaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent Ghana, a civil society group, has sued Tema Development Company (TDC) for GH\u20b55m for allegedly violating the fundamental human rights of some residents of Sakumono in the Tema Metropolis during a demolition exercise. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nN9oNfZLDk59AXNt9Rbt6sIU3v7uGPmW&#8221;]The suit is seeking orders, directives, and declarations aimed at securing the basic human and economic rights of the affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[3,1541,1013],"class_list":["post-364913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-tds","tag-tema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364913","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}