THE Ashaiman NDC Task Force that forcefully seized 21 places of convenience in the municipality has handed over the facilities to the Municipal Assembly (ASHMA).
The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Addison Adinortey Numo told the Daily Graphic in a telephone interview.
He said following the seizure by the group, constituency executive of the party held a series of meetings with the leadership of the task force and impressed upon them to release the facilities.
Mr Numo said that leaders of the group on Wednesday held a meeting with the assembly in which they officially withdrew their members who had taken temporal charge of the place to vacate the premises for the assembly. He, however, regretted the toilets issue was still a major controversy in the party hierarchy within the constituency.
The Task Force last Thursday, led by Eric Brown-Voryee seized 21 places of convenience in the community,citing financial difficulties coupled with unemployment as the reasons for their action.
The recent seizure 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 Organiser, Habel Adjei.
Mr Abdullai Abdallah,a spokesperson for the group, who spoke to the Daily Graphic after the recent exercise indicated their decision to go against the court order is as a result of the continuous plea to the party leadership to provide the over 400 members of the team who toured the entire country in the heat of the 2008 election campaign.
He continued that the failure of the party’s leadership to heed to their persistent appeals had worsened members’ financial state.
Mr Abdallah could however not be reached for his comments on the latest development.
Mr Numo indicated the facilities have since been handed over to the operators from whom the facilities were forcefully seized.
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