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Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater-Accra Regional Minister, on Thursday appealed for public support for the intended demolition of Sodom and Gomorrah slum in the regional capital. �I am pleading with you to bear with us� to pull down Sodom and Gomorrah,� he said when he addressed the Third Quadrennial Delegates� Conference of the Greater-Accra branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers at Nungua. Nii Ashietey explained that: �We are not doing this because we are insensitive, but because the condition of living at the place is inhuman.� He said one had to visit the slum before he or she could fully appreciate the need for government to take that firm decision. Sodom and Gomorrah is a sprawling slum within the central business district of Accra with serious sanitation problems. Last week, Nii Ashietey announced government�s decision to evict the more than 40,000 squatters from the slum, without any form of compensation or resettlement package. The announcement was met with different public outcry in the media.