A businessman, Richard Asante, popularly known as Little Ben Shoes is in trouble again after attempting to expand an illegal drinking spot facility on the Koforidua railway line.
The construction of the drinking spot was stopped by the New Juaben South Municipal Assembly early this year for not having a permit.
However, the businessman, Richard Asante alias Little Ben has resumed work by constructing an expanded facility of the drinking spot believed to be a brothel but the businessman says it is a chop bar.
He has subsequently released a letter purported to have obtained from Ghana Railway Company Limited permitting him to construct the facilities on the railway line.
This is creating uproar among concerned residents in the municipality.
“So you people sit there at the assembly and Allow little Ben to put up a structure for brothels at the railway line right opposite his shoe shop. Are we serious at all” a resident fumed.
Owners of Little Ben shoes and Bula Spot were indicted in an undercover investigation conducted this year by Journalist Obed Kojo Ansah for running brothels that accommodated trafficked Nigerian girls by sex trafficking syndicates.
The brothel by Little Ben Shoes was erected on railway line buffer land behind KFC but has since been demolished after the expose’.
The Municipal Chief Executive for New Juaben South Isaac Appaw Gyasi says the Assembly will take immediate action to stop the impunity of the businessman.
Source: Mybrynewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
