Anokyi community people cry for developmental projects

The Chief and people of Anokyi, a community located near Atuabo Gas in the Ellembele District of the Western Region are calling for developmental projects in the community.

The Chief, Nana Avo Blay told Daily Express that the community lacks developmental projects and other employable ventures, which will offer the people in the area, especially the young ones job to do.

The people in the community are mainly farmers and fisher folks. However, Nana Avo Blay said where the Atuabo Gas is located has taken a large portion of their farm lands, and this has really affected the living standards of the people.

“This has resulted in a large number of our people not having anything to do. Even though compensation was made to those farmers by the Ghana National Gas Company, the compensation to the farmers was not done according to the number of crops on the lands. So we did not gain as far as our lands and crops are concerned,” Nana Avo Blay stated.

The Daily Express together with other financial journalists visited the Western Region to find out how developments in the area have been, after the establishment of the Atuabo Gas and the works of Jubilee Field. The trip was sponsored by GIZ/SECO and IFEJ.

The team visited Ghana National Gas Company, Quantum Facility, Essikado, Abuesi, Takoradi Port and other areas in the region.

Nana Avo Blay lamented that apart from the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant which had caused some farmers unable to farm again, the Jubilee Field has also created difficulties for them.