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BPA Chief Executive Officer
Pays a working visit to Bui village Main
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The Chief
Executive Officer of BPA, and his entourage, paid a working visit to
Bui village to call on the chief and elders of the village. The
Chief of Bui village acknowledged that the government was doing
well, citing the ongoing Bui dam construction. |
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The Mr.
Oware reiterated his earlier point that since the people of
Bui villages are indigenes and were going to loose their
ancestral land due to the Bui project, adequate compensation
will be given to them by the company and added that the people
of Bui village will be resettled at the place of their
choice. However, their choice will be subjected to a number
of factors. First, their choice should not be too far from
their farmlands. Second, their choice of where they would
want to be resettled should be suitable for BPA. |
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The CEO
in an interaction with the chief of Bui Village (far right) |
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The CEO further
stated that hopefully by December 2008, resettlement process for the
three villages (Bui village, Akenyakrom and Bator) yet to be
resettled would commence. The elders and the people of Bator village
raised a number of concerns during a separate meeting with BPA
Officers. They wanted to know when they will be resettled, when
compensation for farmland and economic trees will be paid for, and
sought clarification on what BPA was doing for people at Jama
resettlement camp. According to the people of Bator village, since
they are on Bui land and the fact that they are living harmoniously
with the people of Bui village, they would prefer to be resettled at
where Bui village would be resettled. |
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In response to the
request that they would like to be resettled close to Bui village,
the CEO of BPA stated that BPA would have no problem resettling them
close to Bui village but the proper thing to do would be to inform
and seek the concern of the elders of Bui village of the request of
Bator village. The chief of Bui village, in the meeting stated that
the two villages intermarry and do a lot of things together and
therefore do not object to Bator village's request. The CEO
explained that each member of the forty two households resettled at
Jama resettlement camp has received one hundred Ghana Cedis (GH¢100.00)
as resettlement grant. The resettlement grant is meant to ensure a
comfortable livelihood for the people for the first few days at
their new resettlement site and also as a compensation for the
inconvenience caused to them. In addition, the heads of all the
households was given fifty Ghana Cedis (GH¢50.00) as land
development grant to enable them clear at least two acres of
farmland at Jama farmland.
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