A Kumasi High Court has passed judgment in favour of Freko FD in one of the many legal twists going on between the company and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA).
This came in the wake of a lawsuit that was filed against KMA by Freko FD in 2011 following incessant breach of contract by the Assembly.
And from one adjournment to the other, the Kumasi High Court finally on January 23, 2015 ruled in favour of Freko FD.
Explaining the incident after the ruling to Today, an executive member of the company who spoke on condition of anonymity said Freko FD in the year 2000 constructed some public toilet facilities in some parts of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly after a Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) agreement with the Assembly was entered into.
The executive member continued that after Freko FD had spent millions of Ghana cedis on the construction of the facilities, the KMA deliberately disregarded their agreement in 2011 without recourse to the terms and conditions in the said agreement and attempted to forcibly takeover the facilities.
That situation, according to the executive member, compelled the management of the company to petition the court.
According to the executive member, there were no decent public toilets in Kumasi as no company was willing to enter into partnership with the government to provide such facilities for residents in Kumasi.
However, the executive member said management of Freko FD took that risk due to their desire to help develop the town, and Ghana for that matter.
Meanwhile, Today’s investigation indicated that a petition was sent to the Speaker of Parliament concerning the maltreatment of the Managing Director of Freko FD by then Kumasi Mayor, who is now the Ashanti Regional Minister, Samuel Sarpong, but to no avail.
His successor, Kojo Bonsu, also followed the footsteps of his predecessor resulting in several legal tussles between Freko FD and the KMA.
