Land owners threaten to block Accra-Kumasi highway

Owners of the land on which the Accra-Kumasi Highway at Kwafokrom-Apedwa was constructed on Friday declared their intention to block the highway today to register their frustration at the non-payment of compensation for the past five years.

Four out of the 20 families affected by the road construction, who walked to the office of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra to register their abhorrence for the delay, warned to block the main road today.

“We are ready to resist any security forces that will be deployed to the area…we are ready to engage them until our demands are met. Our demand is for the government to pay us our compensation,” the leader of the group, Mr Kwabena Owusu Dome, the Managing Director of Kasapa Sawmill at Okorase-Suhum, stated.

A petition signed by the 20 families handed over to the GNA stated: “Our decision to demand the payment through a roadblock is a result of frustrations we have been facing in trying to ensure that what is rightfully and legally due us is paid without further delay.

“As long as the government continues to delay in the payment of our money, we will continue to resort to peaceful strives, since all avenues to seek redress on this matter seem closed.”

— GNA