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The Executive Director of Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), Prof. Edward Akaho has openly admitted to PeaceFM that he authorized security personnel from the commission to demolish and set fire to property belonging to Anaina International Limited on a disputed piece of land at Dome-Kwabenya. Anaina is a wholly-owned Ghanaian company but its construction team is led by some Chinese expatriates. The GAEC and the private company Anainia, are both laying claim to a 164 acre piece of land at Dome-Kwabenya. The security officials from the GAEC pulled down edifices including warehouses, make-shift housing structures for its construction workers and set fire to vehicles, water reservoir and some construction equipment such as excavators, wheelbarrows and a generator plant amongst others. So huge was the fireball that personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service in Madina had to be called in to douse the flames. Anaina intends undertaking a massive project that promises to employ more than 50,000 indigenous Ghanaians. The project, according to its handlers, is for the state-of-the-art International Business District (IBD) and will see to the setting up of offices, businesses and residential apartments, five-star hotel and casinos, supermarkets, departmental stores, recreational facilities and parks, banks, bus stations and a host of other infrastructure on a 700,000 square meter land in the Legon-Atomic enclave area. Handlers of the project say it would cost not less than US$500million to complete and have thus brought in some Chinese investors to partner them in its execution. But the project has for some time now stalled following complaints by the commission that the land in question belongs them and have consistently warned that the construction of apartments, hotels or warehouses could pose serious problems for emergency evacuations in event of any nuclear accident or incident.