Kewunon fishermen to own new homes

Fishermen at Kewunon in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra Region who live in straw houses would soon own fully furnished modern brick and mortar houses as part of a resettlement package.

“The remote village and its surrounding cottages would also enjoy potable water and electricity for the first time,” Mr Steveson Akwetey, Director of Social Programmes, Trasacco Estates Development Company Limited (TEDC), told the GNA in an interview.

Mr Akwetey, who spoke on the future of the people whose houses and livelihoods could be affected by the construction of the company’s beach resort atg the Volta Estuary, said VRA would resettle 105 people on land close to the resort.

He said the VRA would make sure that those who would be affected were well compensated and housed in an environment which has all the trappings of modern living.

He said a car park with a capacity for 350 vehicles would be built as part of the project and handed over to the Ada East District Assembly to generate revenue for local development.

The Kewunon and the Azinzinya lands, which were acquired by the Ghana Tourist Authority in 1974, was leased to the TEDC with the blessing of the Dangmebiawe Clan, original owners, in 2013, to develop a $400 million beach resort.

Ada Azizanya Luxury Beach Retreat is the name of the TEDC and Hilton International Resorts project. The project, expected to be completed in 16 months, would need some 400 local artisans to complete and some 300 permanent workers thereafter.