General News of Friday, 8 October 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The Accra-Tema Motorway is inundated with several illegal structures• Several of such structures have been demolished in an exercise on Friday• The latest exercise was undertaken by La Dade-Kotopon and Ayawaso North Municipal AssembliesA team of police officers and local assembly officials on Friday, October 8, 2021, supervised the demolition of several illegal structures along the Accra-Tema Motorway. Some affected settlers along the motorway during the exercise appealed for government support after their habitats were dismantled by the team. Portions of the Accra-Tema Motorway over the years have been encroached by squatters who end up erecting makeshift structures along the route. A breakdown of the structures indicated that 78.7 percent were conventional structures, 9.7 percent are wooden structures, 8.0 percent are metal containers, 2.8 percent are kiosks and 0.9 percent being “other” structures. The census report also listed a little over 20 percent of structures in Ghana are listed as uncompleted.
