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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Monday demolished a three-storey building at Kisseiman in Accra. The exercise was undertaken as part of AMA�s weekly inspection, with the support of the security agencies, sub-metro directors, district environmental health officers and the district cleansing officers, to detect unsafe buildings in the metropolis. The three-storey building comprised stores and residential apartments. An uncompleted storey building operating as Ateco Senior High School Complex at Awoshie was also closed down. Weekly inspection In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of AMA, Numo Blafo, said the weekly inspection had been in place since the beginning of the year and was unertaken followed the recent collapse of uncompleted buildings in the city. According to him, the demolished building at Kisseiman had no building permit, land title documents and no building plan. �The building is under construction, with no building plan, poor building materials, and this can collapse at any time,� he said. Numo Blafo said the contractors in charge of the building were asked to stop work when a engineer moved in to conduct an assessment. The assessment result, he said, indicated that it was unsafe and should, therefore, be demolished. Commenting on Ateco Senior High School Complex, he said it was also unsafe for students to be attending classes in an uncompleted building. The PRO said the school had been ordered not to operate till further developments were carried out on the building. Ateco Senior High School The Headmaster of Ateco Senior High school, Mr Charles Commey, told the Daily Graphic that the school was registered and, therefore, �it is unfair for the AMA to stop us from operating.� He said the final-year students had been added to the Apostle Safo Senior High School to write the ongoing West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE). However, the form one and two students were having their terminal exams at the school�s assembly hall, which is separate from the main school building. Mr Commey appealed to the AMA to provide the school with a permit to complete its building.