There was pandemonium at the infant Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) near Tema when irate National Democratic Congress (NDC) [elements] descended on the facility seeking the transfer of the ownership of toilets in the sprawling township. Frightened staff of the assembly [...] have embarked on an indefinite strike for fear of being manhandled.
"Take over by NDC" slogan on public toilet. Photo: Daily Guide
[...] Their action, laced with noisy singing of war songs, was a replication of what has come to be known as the NDC toilet coup. [...] One of the features of the assumption of power by President John Evans Atta Mills on 7 January 2009 has been the seizure of public toilets across the country. [T]he toilets, which had been handed over to contractors a few years ago [...] are said to be goldmines and NDC elements think with the swing in the pendulum of power in the country, they too should partake in the pie. A day after Mills was sworn into office, a group of young men purported to have come from the camp of the NDC took over the Mallam Tunga public toilet in the Ga West District Assembly.
Source: Razak Mardorgyz, Ashaiman, Daily Guide, 12 Feb 2009 ; Nathaniel Y.Yankson, Daily Guide, 10 Feb 2009
