SCRAP DEALERS CLASH WITH NATIONAL SECURITY OVER ALLEGED GHC 330,000 RAILWAY SALE AT TAKORADI PORT
At the Takoradi Port in the Western Region, a group of scrap traders were allegedly prevented from disassembling railway materials by National Security agents.
At an old railway depot at the port, the traders were seen cutting massive amounts of metal, including rails and railway cars, in groups of ten.
Alhaji Razak, one of them, confronted the agents, claiming that their activity was authorized by a committee composed of political leaders from Effia Kwesimintsim Municipality and the Sekondi-Takoradi city.
He said that the committee had sold them the scrap deal for GH¢330,000 for every 100 tons of metal.
“They told us that the Railway Company was going to auction some of their items at the port and that if we paid that amount, we would be allowed to take them,” Razak said, adding that they had already made payments to the group in charge.
He accused the National Security agents of obstructing their work on the grounds that the Transport Ministry had not yet received payment from the alleged sale, and he claimed to have handed the money to one Chairman Seidu, who was identified as an NDC constituency chairman in Effia.
Razak is requesting a reimbursement of the GH¢330,000 he and his friends spent because he feels the committee misled them.
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