The Ashanti regional minister Simon Osei-Mensah and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Consumer Protection Agency, Kofi Kapito have been fingered in a tussle over Kumasi Ghana Water land.
According to reports two chief managers of Ghana Water Company stationed at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region official residency is being demolished for a private developer.
The information gathered suggests the private developers using the 2024 elections as a cover-up to pull down the state properties owned by the Ghana Water bungalows originally acquired in the 1920s over fears the NPP will be voted out of government.
It has been revealed that days before the demolishing exercise in Kumasi, Kofi Kapito, allegedly stormed the headquarters of Ghana Water in Accra, yelling at officials to vacate the state land for the private developers to do their business.
Investigations have revealed that the Kumasi Ghana Water land has been a tussle between Simon Osei-Mensah and the management of the Ghana Water Company since November 2023, but the Minister’s outfit is still poised to give out the land to the private developer.
On January 6, 2024, the Ghana Water Company Limited officially declined a request from the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council (ARCC) to relocate occupants of government bungalows as part of the Kumasi Sector 18 which includes Ridge, Danyame, Nhyiaeso for a redevelopment project.
In a letter addressed to the regional minister the management of the Ghana Water Company led by its Managing Director, Dr Clifford A. Braimah detailed the origins of GWL’s ownership, tracing back to the 1920s with the Owabi Dam Water Supply Project.
Meanwhile, the Staff of Ghana Water Limited on Friday, December 13 to December 16, 2024, shut down their operations leaving several homes without running water when the private developer demolished the walls of two chief managers and broke down a boys’ quarters attached to one of the bungalows.
They have issued a similar warning that they would resume an industrial action effectively closing the taps to several homes in the greater Kumasi area if the destruction of the company’s residential properties is not ceased.
