The Ashanti Regional Co-ordinating Council (ARCC) has served eviction notices to some workers occupying government bungalows following the release of the lands to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
In a letter addressed to all regional public institutions by the Chief Director on behalf of the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, occupants of these bungalows will be relocated beginning July 2023.
The letter informed all the affected workers that the Golden Stool had taken over the said lands for the Redevelopment of Sector 18 of Kumasi under the Executive Instrument(E.I) 432 of 2021.
“Arrangements are underway to re-locate government officials who were allocated the bungalows by the Ashanti Regional Co-ordinating Council on the affected land to new facilities. In this regard, occupants are to hold themselves in readiness to relocate to new facilities that will be assigned to them.
“This notification is to make all occupants aware of the exercise, which is scheduled to begin tentatively in July 2023,” the letter stated.
However, it assured that the exercise would be undertaken smoothly without any inconvenience to the occupants.
Meanwhile, sources indicate that some medical doctors who are part of the affected occupants are threatening to leave the region en masse if the notice is carried through.
According to these doctors, they renovated these bungalows with their funds after being assigned them.
“These were rightly allocated bungalows, some of which we had to use our own money to renovate. How can you evict hard-working workers like common criminals?”
“All doctors will be forced to leave the region or stop work if this is carried out, especially in these hard times,” one senior medical officer told journalists on condition of anonymity.
Below is the letter from the ARCC
