Minister ‘fights’ Assembly Engineer over decongestion exerciset

The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah is reportedly impeding the efforts by the Tema Metropolitan Assembly in restoring the area to its former glory.

He is said to have made attempts to resist decisions of the Assembly from being enforced.

Mr. Carlos Ahenkorah who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema West on Thursday, 31st August 2017, nearly brutalized the Tema Metropolitan Assembly Metro Engineer, Mr Maxwell Adu- Boateng when he in the company of some police and navy officers went to community 2 to remove some unauthorized structures sited in front of Cocoa Village near PV Obeng roundabout.

Mr Ahenkorah who was not around when the exercise begun upon receiving information, quickly mobilized some of the youth and stormed the area fuming with rage.

He created a nasty scene which shocked many residents to wonder how he could publicly display such conduct as a Minister of state.

The Metro Engineer who became threatened by the action of Mr Ahenkorah quickly boarded the Assembly’s pick up with registration number GN-7605-16 and fled the scene, but Mr Ahenkorah pursued him and hit the car apparently to force the engineer to stop, hurling some abuses at him in the process.

Upon realising that the Engineer would not stop, the angry looking Mr Ahenkorah then confronted one of the navy officers and warned him.

“Don’t follow this people to come here. I’m the Deputy Dinister and also the MP here. If TMA boss calls you tell him that I say don’t come here. If you come I will organise boys and do action for you to shoot and kill all of us,” he dared.

Reacting to the conduct of the deputy minister in a interview with journalists , the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive Mr Felix Mensah Nii Annang-La said he was surprised that Mr Carlos could go that extent.

Felix Mensah Nii Annang –La

He explained that COCOBOD of which Mr Carlos Ahenkorah is a Board Member wrote to the Assembly during the previous administration to remove all unauthorized structures in front of the cocoa village entrance, but the assembly did not carry on with the exercise because of the impending general elections.

Mr Felix Mensah -La continued that upon assumption of office this year, COCOBOD again wrote to the Assembly asking them to remove those structures because they posed security threat to the Cocoa village.

According to him, apart from personally engaging those who have put up those structures and explained to them to move, he also engaged the Member of Parliament for the area.

” I have spoken to the MP……Three weeks to the exercise we met and again three days to the exercise Carlos was in my office and I told him that we will go ahead with the exercise.”

“All the three Members of Parliament in Tema are part of the Assembly… And this decision was taken be the General Assembly whether that MP was present or not they are part of the Assembly,” he added.

The tough talking Tema mayor said the Assembly will go ahead and clear all illegal structures in Tema despite opposition by Carlos Ahenkorah.

Story By : Michael Creg Afful

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