Lunatics take over Tema Metropolis

Lunatics take over Tema Metropolis
Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot

Accra, May 17, Ghanadot - Residents in the Tema Metropolis in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana are getting increasingly worried over the ever-growing presence of lunatics in the Metropolis in recent times.

Their concerns stems from the fact that where ever one goes within the Metropolis nowadays, he or she is likely to bump into one lunatic or the other thus heightening the fears of residents as a result of the increasing number of the mentally deranged persons in the metropolis.

At corners within the Metropolis, food or eating joints, along pavements, on football pitches even around the market areas it is now a common occurrence to see some of these people either wandering about or stacked at a corner taking a nap.

Some of them are not friendly and are picking up quarrels with pedestrians and townsfolk anytime they try to show them the exit from places where people go to buy food to eat or drink.

Traders who sell food to school children at the Twedaase Junior High School (JHS) at the forecourt of Our Lady of Mercy (OLAM) Catholic parish at Community One, Tema have had a lot to complain about as a result of the presence of two regular ‘customers’ who have made it a point to mingle with the school children especially when they come out for break.

These two guys whose places of abode cannot be traced or none has any knowledge about where they come from have made the place their home where they do everything including sleeping.

This according to the traders has slowed down their businesses because some of the school children and passersby are afraid of the mad men and therefore do not buy from them.

A visit made by the Ghanadot to Tema metropolis last week Wednesday saw some of them attempting to attack a number of the traders at the Tema market and other public places.

The traders have therefore appealed to authorities at the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) to endeavour to get rid of all the lunatics in the area before they loose all their customers.

Philip Abam, a Tema based Taxi driver also called on TMA to ensure that all such persons are removed from the streets for the safety of residents in the Metropolis.

Ghanadot