The NEWS (Monrovia)
C Emmauuel Johnson
5 May 2008
Monrovia — Residents of the Old and New Matadi Estates in Sinkor would be evicted very soon if they failed to meet up the May 5, (today) deadline set by the National Housing Authority to settle their arrears. The arrears is in the amount of over L$4 million.
The eviction exercise which should have begun May 2, 2008, according to the Deputy Managing Director for Techincal Services at the National Housing Authority (NHA), Amos Sackie, did not go ahead because the NHA management extended the deadline to give the tenants sufficient time to pay their arrears.
Mr. Sackie said failure to adhere to the deadline, the management would have no alternative but to carry out an evction exercise, and pointed out that the eviction of tenants was overdue.
"The National Housing Authority has been patient with tenants of the two estates by listening to their appeals for extension so that they can pay their arrears, but we will not relent to institute stringent measures if they failed to adhere to this deadline," he added.
Mr. Sackie noted that while some of them are making frantic efforts to settle their arrears in piecemeal, others have deliberately refused to follow suit thereby making their situation uncompromising.
Sackie added: "we will start from those huge arrears to the lower ones because some of the delinquent tenants' arrears ranged from L$50,000 to $81,000 and they are making no effort to pay this amount."
He said the tenants have stayed in the housing units for more twenty years.
When he quizzed on the latest appeal by tenants for extension of the deadline to December 2008, Sackie said management has thrown out that appeal beacause tenants have already been given adequate time to meet up with their obligations.
Recently, the NHA embarked on a massive eviction of tenants at the New and Old Matadi estates, but the process was halted due to the intervention of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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