Rattray park closed down for non-payment of tax

The Rattray Park has been closed down for non-payment of tax by officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in Kumasi.

playThe Rattray Park, Kumasi City

Since it was commissioned in 2015, GRA officials in Kumasi say the facility has not been registered for tax purposes.

Multiple attempts by the GRA to get the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, managers of the park, to register the facility as a business entity has been unseccessful.

The entry gate has been sealed with commissioners tape after patrons and workers were forced out of the facility.

playThe gate sealed with the commissioners tape

The recreational facility was jointly commissioned President John Mahama and by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II in 2015.

playJohn Mahama and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II commissioning the facility.

The park was named after Captain Robert Rattray, a Scottish who was the Assistant Colonial Secretary in the Gold Coast and clerk to the Legislative Assembly of Accra in 1919.

It forms part of efforts to green Kumasi and restore it to its past glory as the Garden City of West Africa.