The Ashaiman NDC Taskforce has finally vacated 21 toilets which it forcibly seized in military style last Thursday.
The so-called taskforce, a youth wing of the Ashaiman branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), near Tema, handed over the facilities to the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA), which in turn handed them back to persons who were initially contracted to run them.
Confirming the handing-over, Mr. Addison Adinortey Numo, the Municipal Chief Executive of ASHMA disclosed in a telephone interview that the assembly held marathon meetings with leaders of the NDC taskforce yesterday morning during which it was finally agreed that the taskforce handed the management of the toilets to the assembly for onward submission to the contractors who were managing them before the seizure last week.
�There was a meeting this morning where members of the taskforce agreed to vacate the seized toilets to us and we have also released them to the contractors who were in charge of the facilities,� he told Daily Guide. The NDC taskforce allegedly seized all 21 places of convenience within Ashaiman last Thursday, with a certain Eric Brown-Voryee leading the group. The group which had earlier on seized the �Kufuor� lorry station and later released it to its managers explained that their action was to protest against the failure on the part of the leadership of the party to give them jobs since winning election last December.
The move on Thursday dawn comes four months after a Tema High Court presided over by Justice Nana Gyemera Tawiah had amicably settled a suit filed by the Ashaiman Toilets Contractors Association against the NDC Constituency Secretary, Mr. Ibrahim Bawa, and Organizer, Habel Adjei.Mr. Abdullai Abdullah, spokesperson for the group, was reported to have explained to journalists that their decision to act outrageously was in reaction to failure of the leadership of the party to listen to their continuous pleas to employ over 400 members of the party who toured the entire country in the heat of the 2008 electioneering campaign.
Daily Guide could however not ascertain whether the group had indeed handed over the toilets to the assembly. The environment at one of the toilet facilities was peaceful when this paper visited the area, with caretakers busily attending to patrons.
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