Security posted to Weija Dam to rein in residents

Security personnel have been deployed to provide 24-hour guard at the Weija Dam Bridge in the Ga South Municipal Assembly (GSMA) in the Greater Accra Region.

The security personnel have been tasked to apprehend residents who attempt to climb over the dam walls or use the bridge as a thoroughfare.

This follows the Daily Graphic’s publication of September 2, 2014 that residents of some communities around the Weija Dam had abandoned a footbridge constructed over the Densu River to aid their movement.

According to the residents, the current steel footbridge does not link residents on one side of the dam to the Weija town and, therefore, makes it difficult for inhabitants of Ayigbe Town, SCC, Old Barrier, Bortianor and Broadcasting to do their daily rounds at Weija.

They have, therefore, reverted to the old practice of scaling the walls of the dam to get access to Weija.

Residents warned

Speaking to the Daily Graphic, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr Abraham Otabil, warned that the ministry and management of the Weija Treatment Plant would not entertain what he described as “total indiscipline” from residents of both ends of the dam.

“It beats our imagination that after the government had spent huge resources on constructing a footbridge for residents of Weija, they continue to indulge in that practice. We will not allow this to continue because the Weija Dam bridge was not built to aid the movement of people,” he said.

Destroyed metal gates

Mr Otabil said the ministry would repair the metal gates which had been destroyed by the residents, “and will make sure that this does not happen again”. 

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He called on the GSMA and the Chief of Weija to address the issue with the residents to forestall future occurrences.

“Residents must also be warned about the danger in climbing that wall because if anything should happen, the management of the Weija Treatment Plant and the ministry would not be held responsible,” he said.