JOB CREATION

It is expected that at the peak of the ongoing Bui dam construction, the tentative workforce for the Ghanaians will stand at two thousand nine hundred (2900) and the Chinese will be five hundred (500). The Ghanaian workforce will comprise of people with expertise ranging from Technicians, Administration, Foreman, skilled labour, semi skilled and unskilled.

  
 
 

The Jama Resettlement Community located within the Bole District of the Northern Region of Ghana has benefited in many ways with the introduction of Job opportunities, educational amenities, Health amenities, sanitation and other social amenities. The Bui project has also opened the area including the surrounding areas to major investments. READ MORE

  In the picture [left] is a re-settler working on the borehole drilling project
 
  Meeting with Elders of Bui Village
 

BPA officials held a meeting with the elders of Bui village during which, it became clear that the four villages resettled at Jama resettlement camp are not indigenes of bui village lands, but rather migrants who, upon permission came to settle to either fish or farm and did not make any payments for their settlement including the building of houses and cultivation of farms.

  

These migrants’ farmers only gave the land owners some tubers of yam and fowls at end of each farming season. The fishermen on the other hand, gave bowls of fish to the land owners based on prearranged conditions. Thus the migrants do not own any land of their own and therefore are not entitled to any form of land compensation due to the Bui project. However, land owners of people of Jama and the people of Bui will be compensated for portions of their lands that have been affected by the Bui dam construction. The elders of Bui village wanted to know when they will be resettled, and when compensation for their cashew trees would be paid and also whether the paramount chief of Bui City will be the chief of Bui village. READ MORE