Sodom and Gomorrah: Angry residents demonstrate over demolition

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Victims of last Saturday’s Sodom and Gomorrah demolition exercise took to the streets Monday morning to demonstrate against the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA).
Sodom and Gomorrah residents demonstrate over demolition
According to reports, the groups picketed at various spots including the Parliament House, State House, AMA office and the Agbogbloshie Market.
According to a report on Citi FM, the demonstrators numbering about 200 were trying to enter the Banquet Hall of the State House to draw the attention of the President to their plight as a result of the demolition which has left them homeless.
Another group, numbering about 1000 blocked the roads leading to the Agbogbloshie Market with burning tyres.
Describing the situation as chaotic, the Citi FM report said the police were on the ground trying to bring the crowd under control.
The angry youth say they have been betrayed and will vote against the National Democratic Congress (NDC) come 2016.
The Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) last Saturday demolished hundreds of structures at Sodom and Gomorrah, rendering scores of people homeless.
The task force, with the assistance of the security forces, razed down the structures which were said to have contributed to the recent floods in Accra and stalled the execution of the Korle Lagoon Restoration Project.
The exercise was led by the Chief Executive Officer of the AMA, Mr Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije.
Some angry dwellers in the slum set fire to some structures that were not affected by the exercise while others whose shelters were the first to be demolished salvaged some items from them.
A few, however, were able to remove some of their belongings from their shacks before the demolition began.

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