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General News of Monday, January 21, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-01-21
The instruction concerned the production of a license before January 16, 2019.
The relatively larger offices allocated to the Special Prosecutor's Office in October 2018 were marked with the registration "Stop working and produce a permit" by officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). ), a situation that hinders the ongoing construction of a fence wall.
This means that renovations going on inside the facility will also be affected.
The instruction was to have a permit issued before January 16, 2019.
It is unclear what kind of paperwork had been done on the building before it was handed over to the critical public institution, and whether this action on the part of WADA would actually make sense for the office.
When contacted, the Accra Metropolitan Executive Director, Nii Adjei Sowah, told Eyewitness News that the Special Prosecutor's Office needed to provide his office with his permits before he could continue the work.
True, they do not have a license … We do not know it's for the special prosecutor's office. Whoever the owner of the property, he must certainly apply for a permit to the competent authority. The license is not even intended to charge fees … It is our responsibility to have proper records of all properties in Accra.
"They should just inform us and provide us with documentation indicating exactly what they want to do. We will approve it and it will end, "he said.
Meanwhile, Citi News learned that special prosecutor Martin Amidu was not satisfied with the way a contractor was chosen to build a so-called no-wall fence in the chief of staff's office.
As a result, he recently ordered the arrest of people working on the project.
He is committed to ensuring that procurement processes are well done so as not to put his office at a standstill.
The office, which looked like an abandoned building and was not in use when it was given to this office, had to be extensively renovated to make it habitable.
At the time the building was made available as a result of his own research, the special prosecutor, Martin Amidu, complained that he had not been able to His term of office has been since he took office in February 2018 because his office was under-appointed. equipped with resources.
The two-storey building, which was ready for renovation works, is located near the international press center of Gamel Abdul Nbader Avenue in Ridge.
One of the floors of the building has seven rooms, a conference room and shops, while the second floor has nine rooms.
A visit to the building by Citi News at the time showed broken windows and parts of the complex overgrown with weeds. There were spider webs everywhere and the floors were covered with dust.
It was obvious that the building needed to be redone before Mr. Amidu and his team could move. Architecture and Engineering Services Limited (AESL) engineers on site indicated that it would take six months to complete the rehabilitation work.
Despite this, it is feared that the office building, once ready for use, may not accommodate the expected 230 staff members.
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