More prominent Accra Security Council to crush houses worked inside Sakumono Ramsar site
Source: avea1tv
The Greater Accra Regional Security Council has started an appraisal to obliterate many houses worked inside 1,200 sections of land of the Sakumono Ramsar site.
The region holds large number of gallons of water every year to forestall flooding in the encompassing networks. Be that as it may, this is presently under danger because of mass infringement on the land.
Regions like East Legon and the Tema motorway have been anticipated to flood soon assuming the site goes wiped out.
Provincial Minister, Henry Quartey fears more regions will start to encounter flooding in the event that the Ramsar site isn't secured.
"It implies that the people who are living in East Legon eventually, will be lowered assuming I am correct. Adjei Kojo, Ashaiman is probably going to be lowered. Adjriganor should there be any weighty precipitation will be impacted," he noted.
More prominent Accra Security Council to crush houses worked inside Sakumono Ramsar site
Sakumono Ramsar site
To save the perishing biosphere, the Regional Security Council drove by the Regional Minister, Henry Quartey plans to obliterate all unapproved structures inside the center zone.
"We will return from here to be directed by the specialists to let us know which region, the distance they need between the progress and the center. To make another center, that will depend on them yet unquestionably I can say that a few houses will go down," he said.
Director at the Sakumono Ramsar site, Thomas Acquah says the pace of infringement is disturbing.
More noteworthy Accra Security Council to wreck houses worked inside Sakumono Ramsar site
Structures being set up at the Ramsar site
"At present, as we are talking the center region has been infringed upon. The cradle region is additionally completely infringed with respect to the progress region is now full. As the entire spot goes, it will reach a place where the entire region will be proclaimed as not doable to be utilized as a Ramsar site and that will conflict with the entire country," he told JoyNews.
As indicated by the Technical Advisor of the Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, David Kpelle, past endeavors to end the further infringement of the safeguarded lands was slowed down.
More prominent Accra Security Council to crush houses worked inside Sakumono Ramsar site
Sakumono Ramsar site
"I have driven a destruction group to this spot. The Assemblyman, the Presiding Member, the bosses and land monitors arrived at stop us. Security individuals accompanied us and they brought a court directive. We went to court to put an order on the structure and the Judge denied us and rather put a directive on Forestry Commission," he said.
Initially crossing north of 3,500 sections of land, the Sakumono Ramsar site is one of five in Ghana. It fills in as holding narrows for huge number of gallons of water from the abutting networks.
More prominent Accra Security Council to destroy houses worked inside Sakumono Ramsar site
More prominent Accra Regional Minister at the Sakumono Ramsar site
David Kpelle says it will cost almost 350 million bucks to reestablish the Ramsar site.
As indicated by a 2019 report by the Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERGIS), in the event that care isn't taken, the Ramsar site may before long exist no more.
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