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Mast collapses on building at Baatsona, Spintex road

&NewLine;<p><strong>With people having to observe social distancing and self quarantine in order to help curb the Corona Virus pandemic&comma; a mast sited on the Management Development and Productivity Institute&lpar;MDPI&rpar; building at Baatsonaa&comma; Spintex has collapsed on a residence&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Information reveals that the mast belongs to SuperTech Limited&period;<&sol;strong> <strong>Information gathered within the neighbourhood indicates that it collapsed due to lack of regular maintenance culture&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Nii&NewLine;Gontein Teiko Tsuru II&comma; Chief of the Akononku Divisional Area&comma; who lives in the&NewLine;vicinity revealed that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;fortunately&comma; no casualties were recorded but the&NewLine;destruction of property cannot be disregarded&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>In his&NewLine;submission&comma; Nii Adotey Gbosange&comma; Nungua Stool Secretary revealed &nbsp&semi;that the land in question was acquired by the&NewLine;then Head of State&comma; General Kutu Acheampong for the establishment of the MDPI administrative&NewLine;building and classrooms in the year 1974&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>&&num;8220&semi;In&NewLine;the year 1974&comma; the government acquired a parcel of land &lpar;156&period;184&rpar; acres for&NewLine;MDPI at Baatsona from the then Nungua Chief Nii Odai Ayiku IV&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;Mast-1-1024x768&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-2875"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>The MDPI&NewLine;Senior Officials were led by the wife of the late Chief to meet the Chief and&NewLine;an agreement was made to that effect for the lease of the land&period; Thereafter&comma; &nbsp&semi;a Surveyor from the Lands and Surveys&NewLine;department was brought in to work on the land at the time for the MDPI&comma;&NewLine;including the land where the Texpo Market is situated currently&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>In 1975&comma;&nbsp&semi; the government took over on behalf of the&NewLine;MDPI for the necessary agreement with the Nungua Stool since the body was under&NewLine;the government&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>To that&NewLine;effect&comma; the arrangement was then changed from lease hold to compulsory&NewLine;acquisition by the Government of Ghana&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>There were&NewLine;about ten peasant farmers who were farming on the land for so long on parts of&NewLine;the land which was to be acquired&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>This made&NewLine;them owners since they were indigenes of Nungua&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Compensation&NewLine;was awarded to eight families among the farmers&period; The other two families did not&NewLine;accept&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>After the&NewLine;Revolution in 1979&comma; developments halted on the land in question and encroachers&NewLine;took over the land to build their residences&period; The purpose of the building has&NewLine;been neglected&period; Some telecom institutions have their mast on building&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>&&num;8220&semi;It&NewLine;is therefore important that Government acts promptly and decisively about what&NewLine;will be made of the building&comma; albeit forming a committee to look into the&NewLine;matter to resolve it since May 2017&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>The place&NewLine;has become a threat to life and property of citizens who live in the&NewLine;neighborhood&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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