The 31st December Women's Movement (DWM) headed by Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has come under siege as government initiates firm but fair moves to retrieve all state properties annexed by the movement or handed it by the NDC government on a silver platter.

In the Eastern Region where an estimated 40 structures are being taken back with the movement’s executives fighting a losing battle, either by pleading with the Regional Minister, Dr Francis Osafo-Mensah, or dispatching series of letters to his office to claim ownership of some of the property.

A reliable source at the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (ERCC), however, has stressed that all properties belonging to the state shall be retrieved without any compromise whatsoever."

Of paramount interest is a big building, which previously served as canteen and rest stop for the estimated 5,000 employees in the regional capital, Koforidua.

The Workers Canteen was handed over to the 31st DWM in 1993 by the NDC government with the excuse that the workers management could not run the place as efficiently as the movement would.