Citi\u00a0News<\/strong> source, the meeting between leadership of the VIP, the GPRTU and the STC ended inconclusively.<\/p>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”MJ02Dve8dGaP8WQs2eDixAJrXqoTmqV2″]The meeting was to address a dispute between operators of the private VIP buses and the STC, who are both claiming ownership of a parcel of land at the Asafo terminal.<\/p>\n
Drivers and some workers of the VIP, who had come in with two fully loaded buses and tied red bands, were restricted by the security from entering the premises of the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council.<\/p>\n
The leadership were only allowed in to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n
Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has declined comment on the outcome of the meeting,but says his office will issue a statement by close of day today [Tuesday].<\/p>\n
Some officials of STC, who had visited the Asafo Market terminal to launch the Corporation\u2019s new terminal were denied access to the venue by VIP bus officials.<\/p>\n
STC failed to consult other GPRTU branches<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Director of Finance for VIP, Prof. Lukemond Owusu Ansah, explained that his outfit staged the protest to oppose some GPRTU officials\u2019 decision to give out part of its land to STC without the consent of other branches of GPRTU.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis issue came up and there was a little bit of violence here and we told them and the matter was taken to Manhyia \u2026They were told that the whole place was acquired by GPRTU and it was demarcated for the various branches\u2026 We have about 21 branches there and it is the property of GPRTU \u2026 One or two executives cannot sell the property of GPRTU to STC.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the whole 21 union members who are just contesting that it is constitutionally wrong\u2026We are only saying that STC cannot occupy GPRTU\u2019S land. It is not a property of Kokofu Union. It is a property of GPRTU as a whole\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n
He also denied suggestions that they VIP transport operators, are only resisting STC because they are scared of competition.<\/p>\n
One arrested in STC, VIP fight over terminal in Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\nOn Monday, one person was arrested during the protest by workers of the Neoplan bus terminal at Asafo, Kumasi during the standoff.<\/p>\n
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