The Ashanti Regional Head Office of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Saturday November 20, 2021, has been locked for defaulting in rent payment.
According to the Landlady, the party is owing three years arrears, saying she is not ready to allow any function to be held in the property unless she receive all the monies owed her.
A meeting of Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) which supposed to be held in the head office was disrupted by a landlady after she stormed the party office to demand for 3 years of unpaid rent arrears.
Sources said the Landlady and her children were at the NPP Ashanti Regional Secretariat with the aim of retrieving the unpaid rent.
The son of the landlady Emmanuel Quanty speaking in an interview with Pure Fm’s Osei Kwadawo explained that “The party has operated in this building for over 5 years but the agreement was 2 years but after their rent expired there was the need for another negotiation between us and the party leadership”
According to him, “After the 2 year’s agreement expired, the party leadership declined several invitations to meet us for a new agreement. With the old agreement, every month was Ghc1000”
“Now we are waiting for Chairman Wontumi the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the party but if he fails to show up, we will close down the building till the leadership of the party come for another agreement” he explained.
He added “It is very pathetic that they have failed to do maintenance on the building and it is gradually becoming a death trap which is very dangerous”
The TESCON members who became stranded after they were subsequently driven away from the property by the landlady and her children.