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The Metropolitan Assembly of Tema is being besieged by creditors, as copies of a judicial notice issued by an Accra High Court on outstanding debts have been pasted on its walls.
The notice dated December 23, 2020 had Derkak Construction Company Limited as a plaintiff and the Metropolitan Assembly of Tema (TMA) as a defendant.
It says, “while Fi.Fa’s car dated in Accra on September 1, 2020 has been issued under the hand of His Excellency. Judge Anin Yeboah President of the Supreme Court of Ghana at the request of the judicial creditor DERKAK Con. Co. LTD for the seizure of movable and immovable property of the debtor judgment of the Metropolitan Assembly Subject in the aforementioned litigation ”.
Furthermore, it stated that “the judgment mentioned by the Debtor is prohibited from alienating the property that alienates the property mentioned below by sale, gift or in any other way and all persons are hereby prohibited from receiving said property by purchase, gift or else”.
Meanwhile, on December 22, 2020, the contractor, accompanied by policemen, broke into the TMA to take possession of three trucks and a Prado belonging to TMA in an attempt to recover the judicial debt.
The Ghana News Agency learned that the TMA contracted Derkak Construction Company Limited to purchase and repair some 3,000 streetlights in the Metropolis.
The Assembly was said to have agreed to pay 40 percent of the contract sum after a successful acquisition, while the remaining 60 percent would be paid in installments while the streetlights were repaired.
However, TMA is said to have defaulted, prompting the contractor to initiate a lawsuit against the Assembly and the subsequent ruling.
TMA officials have declined to comment on the matter.
Source: GNA
