Sekondi – Takoradi Mayor adamant about ejection of occupants of Old Sekondi College

It appears the Sekondi – Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly is definitive in its desire to eject persons living on the campus of the old Sekondi College at Ekuase close to the St. Johns Senior High School in the Western Region.

As the metropolis prepares to host the Headquarters of the Ghana National Petroleum Cooperation GNPC city authorities have identified and settled on the campus of the old Sekondi College.

The justification is that GNPC wants a site overlooking the ocean and the old SEKCO is an appropriate fit.

However occupants are resisting, claiming they want adequate time to relocate.

The occupants are mainly teachers. They have petitioned the regional education directorate to intervene.

But the Sekondi – Takoradi Mayor Anthony KK Sam is resolute about ejecting them.

“We are in talks with GNPC, which is relocating here [Sekondi – Takoradi] to assist us with scholarships for our science biased students so that they go and further there education and come assist GNPC with it activities in the country. As a result we have asked our friends [teachers] who are occupying the old SEKCO at Ekuase to vacate the place so that they make room for us to bring down the structures so that we can put up offices for the GNPC”.

Addressing members of the Western Region Ghana National Association of Teachers GNAT at their fifth Quadrennial Delegates Conference in Sekondi the Mayor insisted the occupants are squatters who moved there on their own accord.

“The challenge we have with our plan is that the teachers living there are reluctant to leave. So i ask myself are they helping with the development of the metropolis …, because most of them know very well that they are squatters. So, they will move”.

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