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DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020
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22-Storey building saga:
Association Intl School
sets records straight
NEWS DESK REPORT
THE HEAD of Association International
School, Mrs Audrey
Doryumu, has expressed concerns
and described as unfortunate
a recent non-factual media
publication about the case between residents
of the Airport Residential Area and a Turkish
estate developer over the construction of an
alleged illegal high-rise building in the area.
The proprietress, who has been at the
forefront of efforts to halt the project since
last year, expressed her displeasure at the
manner in which truth was being sacrificed at
the expense of the safety of the people in the
area.
Responding to certain media publications
which she described as false, Mrs Doryumu
told the DAILY HERITAGE that a publication
by a certain newspaper was full of factual
inaccuracies.
•Mrs Audrey Doryumu, Head of
Association International School
She said what was more worrying to her
was that the news report dated 21/12/19 and
with the headline ‘Turkish contractor cleared’
claimed that the developer was acting lawfully
and not in contempt of court as was raised by
the residents.
She said the paper also sought to suggest
that the action taken by the Roads Minister
against the Turkish contractor for damaging a
portion of the road around the building
under construction was arbitrary, as the developer
was working with a permit.
“I was basically shocked to see such a misleading
report coming from a newspaper that
is supposed to be informing the general public,”
she said.
“Contrary to an official letter issued by the
developer in which the proposed building was
stated to be a 22 multi-purpose storey building,
the Daily Guide claimed that the project
was actually a 15-storey,” she said.
Mrs Doryumu said prior to the Roads
Minister's intervention, the developer was ordered
by the court to leave the site after constructing
a concrete retaining wall to protect
properties that adjoin the proposed high-rise.
“When my brother contacted the editor of
the newspaper, he admitted to not being fully
apprised of the facts before publishing the article.
"In a phone conversation with my brother,
the editor apologised to my brother for the
blunder, explaining that the publication was
only to get the attention of readers,” she said.
Minister’s action
According to Mrs Doryumu, she had got
wind that a relative of a top government official
is behind the project and at the right time
she would name the person, and commended
the Road minister for his intervention.
The Roads Minister, MrAmoakoAttah,
went to the construction site a few weeks ago
following concerns raised by residents and
took action against the Turkish contractor,
which made the headlines.
The visibly incensed Minister ordered the
demolition of a road barricade, and further
effected the arrest of the contractor, who
later got released on bail.
Church elder fingered
BY PHILIP ANTOH
y.antoh@yahoo.com
A STAUNCH member of the
Seventh Day Adventists (SDA)
Church and an elder of the
Adentan SDA English Assembly,
Mr Joseph Kwadwo Afari-
Yeboah, has been accused by Mr
Richard Yeboah, a car dealer, of
defrauding him to the tune of
GH¢55,000.00 under the guise
of selling auctioned cars to him.
According to Mr Yeboah, the
complianant, the accused person
told him that the President had
put him in charge of auctioning
of cars at the Tema Port and
that he also worked with the National
Security and that there
• In car fraud
were some vehicles he was auctioning.
Mr Yeboah said he and two
of his friends went to Tema
Port to have first sight view of
the vehicles, where he and Afari-
Yeboah both agreed the terms
and “I paid him GH¢55,000.00
with the promise that the vehicles
will be ready within three
days.”
He said Mr Afari-Yeboah, the
Chief Executive of Threshold
Africa Logistics base in Tema
failed to deliver his promise, and
since then he has been postponing
the dates to deliver the vehicles
for close to four months.
“So in the fifth month, MrAfari-Yeboah
confessed to me
that he cannot provide the cars
and that he will pay the money
but documents available indicate
that he has cleared the cars and
sold to a different person and issued
cheques to cover such
amount,” Mr Yeboah the complainant
stated.
“Because he failed initially to
deliver on the promise and delayed
our money, he agreed to
pay an extra GH¢10,000.00
being cost of T&T to Tema for
the past five months, making a
total amount of GH¢65,000.00.
Mr Yeboah said when we
mounted pressure on him to
collect our money he issued
cheques in three tranches, first
GH¢30,000.00, then
GH¢25,000.00 and finally
GH¢10,000.00 but all the three
cheques couldn’t go through because
there was no money in the
account.
He later met one of my
friends and paid GH¢18,000.00
“I have therefore reported
the matter to the police antifraud
unit where investigations
have commenced,” the complainant
said.
Speaking to the DAILY
HERITAGE in an interview,
Mr Afari-Yeboah admitted having
issued dud cheques to the
complainant because the pressure
on him was too much.
He denied the allegations that
he said the President had put
him in charge of auction vehicles
at the Tema Port and being
a National Security Officer.
“I and the complainant entered
into a genuine business
just that things did not work as
planned and still maintained that
even though the money has
been paid to clear the cars, there
is demurrage that we have to pay
for the Port before the cars can
be cleared,” he stated.
Mr Afari-Yeboah promised
to pay the money on Wednesday,
January 8, 2020, after this reporter
spoke to him but as at the
time of going to bed, Mr Afari-
Yeboah had refused to pick our
phone calls.