The Kumasi High Court, presided over by Justice Kwame Ansu-Gyeabour, has ordered that construction works on a storey building at the Kajetia Lorry Park be stopped immediately.
The court also ordered the Ashanti Regional Surveyor and the Survey Department to go to the site where construction works had taken place and measure the plot of land and furnish it with the report.
The court order followed an affidavit filed by Kwadwo Mensah Gyimah on April 3, 2008 in support of an interim injunction he filed restraining the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) from interfering with the development of the project at the Kajetia Lorry Park.
Upon reading the affidavit, and hearing the counsel of Gyimah and the KMA, the court ordered the plaintiff to "stop all construction work at the Kajetia Lorry Park until the report is submitted to this court".
According to the court, the Survey Department should submit the report by July 30 2008.
The KMA has already advised the public to refrain from renting any of the disputed premises, arguing that "the structures have not received approval from the Kumasi Statutory Planning Committee".
According to a notice signed by the Deputy Metropolitan Director, Emelia Botchway, notwithstanding their warnings, members of the public, including banking institutions, had put up notices or banners to the effect that they were opening offices in the structures, and therefore warned that persons and companies who would violate the notice would be prosecuted in accordance with KMA bye-laws.
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