News:
June 30, 2019
Member of Parliament for North Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor is lamenting over Volta River Authority (VRA) resettlement communities suffering degradation as a result of deprivation as life has become very difficult for the people.
He noted that the resettlement trust fund of VRA has enhanced the living standard for the communities by providing them with social amenities like education, health, sanitation and water.
However the resettled communities remain faced with challenges that need to be addressed, adding non-payment of compensation to the original land owners has assumed greater proportion.
“In South Dayi, the compensation due the people of Toh-Kpalime for giving a large truck of land upon which the Tongor-Kaira resettlement town was built, has not been paid. In Tongor-Tsanakpe, only ten of the proposed one hundred and forty-five quarters have been complete, the remaining one thirty-five have been abandoned since 1975”.
The people are angry against the government when clearly it is not a government issue, again there is an issue of unemployment among the youth, he stated.
He pointed out in a statement on the floor of the House that this challenge can be tackled with the provision of working capital to enable those who wish to venture into entrepreneurship, to do so with the hope that their activities would provide means of employment.
“Mr. Speaker, all the Tongor and most Kpalime communities are without portable water as well as electricity even though their vast lands were lost in the deluged. These communities are located by the lake shore but they do not have pipe-borne water, as the VRA Trust Fund has specific mandate; which mainly is to ensure the well-being of all persons and communities affected by VRA project and to ensure that efforts are made to improve on the standard of conditions of these communities so as to not to make them worse off than their previous conditions prior to the destruction suffered as a result of the GoG project on the lake”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com