Tension is mounting at Ashaiman between New Patriotic Party (NPP) activists and members of the Association of the Committee for the Defence of the Revolution (ACDR) following the take over of all the 17 public places of convenience by a group of people at dawn on Tuesday.

The main controversy is over one of the toilets at Mandela, which the ACDR claimed it built and has been managing for the past 10 years, that was also seized.

A group of about 10 men led by Kofi Agyepong (alias "I Walk Alone"), NPP Chairman for Ashaiman, allegedly seized the toilet and in the process assaulted the toll collector, Mr Ruben Anum.

They were said to have dragged him out of the toll kiosk and taken away. The Mandela toilet generates about 140,000 cedis a day, out of which 50,000 cedis is used to pay cleaners, attendants etc.