Mr Joe Abbey, Acting Managing Director of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC), has said the corporation would soon re-develop some of the old communities in the Tema Metropolis to give them a face-lift.
Mr Abbey said this when members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State Enterprises, paid visited the TDC.
He said some areas within the Metropolis had grown so old that they needed to be face-lifted but added that the re-development programme would take off only if funds became available.
On the challenges facing the TDC, its Acting Managing Director said the major one was public encroachments on TDC lands, and therefore suggested that the State should have absolute control over the use of land in the country.
Mr Abbey said the unhealthy relationship between the Corporation and the Metropolitan Assembly over the issuance of building permits was another major challenge.
Members of the Committee led by its Chairman, Mr Prince Jacob Hayibor, the Member of Parliament for Hohoe North, assured the Corporation that the
concerns raised by its Acting Managing Director would be carried over to the appropriate quarters for redress.