The security task force of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Cape Coast has stormed the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) depot, halting the authorities’ attempts to sell obsolete buses to a scrap dealer.

At Metro Mass's Cape Coast depot, the scrap dealer has been destroying and disassembling abandoned buses while being watched over by managers.

By the time the task group visited the depot on Monday, January 13, 2025, over 10 buses had been neglected and left to decay because of technical issues.

Roland Acquah, a member of the party's security task force at the depot, voiced his worries about the current state of affairs in a media interview.

He emphasized their primary mission, stating, “we are here to safeguard government property and ensure that the metro mass transit management does not unlawfully sell off old buses to scrap dealers.”

Acquah praised the task force's efforts, pointing out that they had successfully stopped the sale of ten buses that were about to be turned into scrap metal.



"We cannot allow management to sell off old vehicles for a paltry sum," he said.



The task group acted quickly to raid the depot and stop any such transaction processes after Acquah disclosed that some buses were allegedly being sold to scrap merchants for as little as GHC1,000 each. The task force squad removed a junk dealer's truck from Cape Coast Metro Mass Transit's facility.

The Head of the Cape Coast Security Task-force for the NDC party, Salifu Issaka, disclosed that they have been to several government offices to ensure outgoing appointees do not loot state properties along.

Among the places they had visited earlier included the “the Regional Coordinating Council, Cape Coast Metro Assembly, and we are here at Metro Mass Transit to ensure that outgoing appointees do not take government property to their homes.”

To maintain order, police officers from Cape Coast's Central Regional Police Command were dispatched, and the task force exercise didn't cause any disruptions to the passengers.