Sylvester Tetteh, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro and Deputy Minister for Information says he will probe the allocation of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) lands to private individuals in the Akwasa area where a demolition took place.
Speaking after information about him demolishing a structure belonging to the GBC went viral, he said administrative lapses on the part of the nation’s broadcaster were to blame for the bad press.
Tetteh said that there is an agreement between the GA South Municipal Assembly and GBC to use the said parcel of land for a public school, hence the demolition of the structure, which he says was done by the Assembly.
He also challenged the GBC Director of Legal Affairs to bring proof of him demolishing a different parcel of land instead of the one allocated to him.
“As a sector deputy minister, and my boss will approve that, I will institute investigations into how GBC lands have ended up building private homes here where we are standing. So he should get ready. If he’s a director of legal and he had the impudence to report his sector deputy minister to the police and had the gut to put my picture on their social media handle.
“…I want to deal with the matter of lies that have been spilt about me that I have forcefully demolished the bungalow. What he claimed to be GBC property, a bungalow. There’s no bungalow here. There’s an old dilapidated structure here and let me tell you, there’s one man who’s been an occupant of that place.
“They’ve been collecting money from him for years. No GBC staff had ever occupied that place for a very long time. It’s a boys’ quarters, dilapidated. Nobody who works in GBC had occupied that property and when the estate manager was here and the coordinates were picked, the coordinates that were picked, that included that whole area. So if you want to build there and an old dilapidated structure is there, what do you do?
“Don’t you clear it before you do the construction? So this is the site plan I’ll share with you. This is a letter sent by Kwami Waja on the instructions of the director general. Where have I gone wrong? Where has the assembly gone wrong? The municipal assembly has not done anything untoward. So this issue of a lawless MP. If I want, if I’m lawless for the sake of my community, I’ll continue to be lawless. Yeah. I’ll continue to be lawless,” Tetteh stated.
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