The court presided over by His Lordship Isaac Oheneba Kufuor has ordered the suspects to reappear on 21st June 2024.

The adjournment was after the Police pleaded with the court for more time to complete investigations.

The Central East Regional Police Command arrested the 10 landguards and retrieved cutlasses and axes at Asabaham in the Ga South Municipality.

The Police said on May 23, 2024, the complainant reported to the Central East Regional Police in Kasoa that Morton City Real Estate owns 49.640 acres of land situated at Asabaham, which they sell to clients for development.

However, in recent months, their clients have been attacked by men from unknown locations.

These men have been seizing the tools of workers, carrying cutlasses and guns, and threatening the workers to either pay money or leave the sites.

On June 6, 2024, an intelligence-led operation by the Central East Regional Police resulted in the arrest of the accused persons at Asabaham.

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Poor and dangerous roads, perennial flooding which is compounded by inadequate drains, plus structures flung just about anywhere – on waterways, dumpsites, hilltops, valleys – have rendered the community a gully town.

There is the imminent threat of chaos everywhere one turns. Buildings are on their knees – on the verge of collapse, with their owners too helpless. The waiting disaster is way beyond them.

The floods have dug gullies and trenches virtually under every building and left these concrete structures precariously stilting about in this densely populated community, one in the Ngleshie-Amanfro constituency – a hotbed for political activities in election years.

Some even think the constituency is a swing one – for the nation’s two largest parties – the NDC and NPP, have been handed the nod to hoist their flags here.

A recent short video of some Bortianor (Adansiman) residents accessing their homes by descending down and climbing up long ladders that sit in a gully that qualifies for a storm drain, sent ace photojournalist David Andoh on a search for what is going on.

And what he discovered – as told by the photographs he returned with – points to the fact that Bortianor is not losing only its shine, but its soul also.

Residents claimed a number of school children have died in flash floods following heavy rains. Walls have been eroded at the Red Top-Abuom and Aplaku suburbs, roads eaten away, and foundations of buildings exposed.

Planks that may cave in under heavy weights litter the community and link up with shops where one may buy supplies. But the entire picture is unsightly and unhealthy, as a result of which many property owners have abandoned their investments.

Bortianor is the same community that is home to the popular West Hills Mall, the manufacturing group Zonda International and the Finny Fertility Hospital. Where these businesses sit is unaffected by the climate devastation though.

Ordinarily, it is a preferred choice for prospective middle and upper class citizens, largely as a result of the serene weather and the greenery. The undulating topography adds its own beauty.

But that beauty is slipping away. Some residences are being cut off from their immediate surroundings.

What used to be a majestic 3-storey building at Baba Dogo, a suburb, is now ghostly trapping, and typifies the degradation that years of lack of planned development have wrecked in Accra’s backyard.

The entire Bortianor enclave falls under Accra’s earthquake zone, and the haphazard development, rather than planned, coordinated and supervised development, cannot continue.

Some of the residents claimed their pleas to authorities to come to their aid have yielded no results, so school children trek between these traps of roads and planks and hanging structures to go to school from Monday to Friday.

The stories sound so familiar, almost a chorus. Kobina Mensah Odoom bemoans the loss of a road in front of his house, previously available to both commercial and private drivers but now impassable.

Many are residents who must park their cars at distant places on a daily basis and make the rest of the journey in and out on foot.
Every rainfall worsens the situation. And in the past few months, the rains have been heavy and so has been the destruction.

Amelia, owner of Insha Allah Food Joint at Broadcasting Alhaji Junction said her customers risk a lot to patronise her joint, and sometimes the risks deter them, especially when it rains.

Richard Bulley resides in a severely affected house close to Old Bortianor-Kokrobite road at Aplaku who is disappointed at city authorities’ failure to respond to calls for help.

He said they tried constructing a wall around the house to save the situation but the volume of water which passes through the place destroyed the initial work.

Kwadwo Okordieh, a welder at Red Top JB complained about how erosion is fast driving him out of business. The road in front of his workshop that leads to J.B. Last Stop has been closed as a result of the deep gullies so no one sees his handiwork anymore.

Akwasi Agyapong, a resident of Broadcasting near the Light House Church recounted how running water from a deep gully collapsed another resident’s fence wall and killed one person in the process.

Bismarck Gyan, a resident of Red Top said he spent huge sums of money to buy gravels and cement to fill a damaged road by his house, however, the fast running water from the gullies washed away everything.

According to Mr Gyan officials from the Ga South Municipal Assembly have been visiting the community but nothing has come out of the visits.

In an interview with the Ga South Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Joseph Nyarni Stephen, he said he led a team of Urban Roads Engineers to the community to assess the situation to enable the assembly to find solutions to the problems.

He asked the residents to be patient, adding that in the coming weeks the assembly will start work in the community to make sure the problems are resolved.

Some residents, who spoke on People’s Forum, a segment on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem, said they have lost patience.

The situation, they bemoaned, has made movement in the vicinity difficult for them, putting their lives at risk.

The residents stated the lack of a good drainage system which results in perennial flooding has washed away the road and a bridge which connected them to their homes.

They added assurances by Road Minister, Kwasi Ofori Asiamah, during a visit to the area last year is yet to see the light of day.

The disgruntled residents have, therefore, appealed to the government to make the construction of the bridge and road a priority to avert any death in the area.

Meanwhile, a Maintenance Engineer with the Municipal Urban Roads Department, Gabriel Ofosu Asare, said they are very much aware of the situation.

He stated the road project was awarded to a contractor, Halifas Amagon between 2018 and 2019 but he left the site over debts owed.

Mr Asare, however, assured the contractor has been paid and will soon move to the site, adding the Roads Minister and other relevant stakeholders last month visited the area to fast-track the project.

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Over 100 residents at Nurses Quarters and Amanfrom Peace Town in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have been displaced after the torrential rains on Wednesday.

Property worth millions of cedis have also been destroyed after a river in the locality, Agyei overflew its banks.

Unfortunately, a mother and her two children have also gone missing at Amanfrom Peace Town after the heavy downpour.

In an interview with Adom News, some of the affected residents appealed to relevant authorities for immediate intervention.

They revealed that the bridge on River Agyei is not up to standard and called for an expansion and accused some developers of building on waterways.

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Scores of residents stranded in the Ga South Municipality following a heavy downpour have appealed to the government and well-meaning Ghanaians to donate food items and essential products that will meet their needs.

Speaking in an interview with Adom News‘ Kofi Adjei, some of the residents lamented they are disappointed in the Weija-Gbawe Member of Parliament (MP), Tina Mensah over her silence.

A resident stated she cannot fathom why she has not even visited the area to commiserate with them three days after the devastation.

The aggrieved residents have, therefore, appealed to Madam Mensah to, as a matter of urgency, offer support as they voted for her to get to Parliament.

Many of the residents at Ashalaja, Weija, Oblogo, Tetegu and its environs have been displaced following a downpour on Sunday.

The residents have described it as a crisis situation as many homes have been submerged and major roads cut off by floods.

The residents now use canoes to avoid drowning.

The National Disaster and Management Organisation, military and Municipal authorities have been on the grounds to rescue the victims to places of safety.

Hundreds of residents at Ashalaja in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have been trapped in their homes with their houses submerged in floods after hours of heavy downpour in the area.

The heavy downpour on Sunday night into Monday has rendered several roads in the area inaccessible.

A visit to the area by Adom News’ Kofi Adjei revealed that the floods occurred after an estate developer broke down a wall constructed by former President John Kufuor to prevent the river Densu from coming into the town.

School children could not make it to school on Monday while several workers were also stranded due to the level of the water after the floods.

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A raging fire has swept through a warehouse at Brigade near Weija in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.

The fire, which destroyed property running into hundreds of thousands of cedis, reportedly occurred on Friday night.

About five vehicles, 10 engines and other accessories at Central Automotive Company were lost to the fire incident.

The timely intervention of the Weija Fire Station officers prevented the fire from spreading to nearby residential property.

The leader of the team, ADO 2 Eric Duffuor, stated the cause of the fire is not yet known but investigations have commenced.

However, eyewitnesses suspect the fire was caused by power fluctuations the area has experienced for sometime now.

They say the fire started shortly after the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) restored power after an outage.

Some of the witnesses revealed that many of the cars have been burnt to ashes while some workers managed to drive others outside.

Meanwhile, the Managing Director of the company, Daniel Kwesi Boadu, told Adom News‘ Kofi Adjei he is still in shock and yet to come to terms with the incident.

ADO2 Duffour has urged automobile companies and other shops to always switch off their metres before closing to save lives and property.

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