Youth groups protest sale of Nkrumah Brigade workshop
Some concerned youth of the Kanda and Nima communities have expressed their frustration over the sale of Dr Kwame Nkrumah Brigade Workshop located at Kanda.
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The workshop, which was established in the era of Nkrumah and later turned into a Youth Engineering Centre (YEC) in 2004, was intended to train 500 unskilled youth in the communities under the National Youth Employment Programme, now Ghana Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship Development Agency (GYEEDA).
Addressing the media at a press conference in Accra last Thursday, the spokesperson for the Association of Future Engineers, Mr Kwabena Boateng, claimed that in 2009, a company called Info Partners and Associates falsely described the workshop as House Number 30, East Kanda Road, Accra, which does not exist, and auctioned it to a Sudanese national called Kazem Moussa Ezzedine at GH¢ 96,500.
He said Kazem Moussa Ezzedine paid only GH¢16,000 to settle the debts of the centre.
Therefore, on March 11, 2010, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the National Commission on Culture, wrote to the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney-General to intervene in the matter.
To this end, he said, on April 18, 2012, the Attorney-General filed a writ of summons against Info Partners and Associates and Kazem Moussa Ezzidne, describing their action as a fraudulent misinterpretation.
Again, on November 1, 2012, the Attorney-General filed an application for interlocutory injunction seeking an order to restrain Kuzem Moussa Ezzidene, his agents and operatives from entering the centre or developing its land.
Mr Boateng said on November 23, 2012, the Commercial Court Division also ruled that Kazem Moussa Ezzidene and Info Partners and Associates should halt any use of or development on the property.
“However, after these rulings, we have seen Kazem Moussa Ezzedine continuing with the development of the site for this commercial activities,” he added.
He also said that most of the equipment used in the centre had been removed from the building and exposed to the weather, hence “They are rusting by the day and this costs us money”
He therefore appealed to the Attorney-General to enforce the Commercial Court’s ruling on the matter and investigate whether Kazem Moussa Ezzedine had a working permit.
By Zainabu Issah
