Mob stops project

Bonyere (W/R), Nov 24, GNA - Work at Domunlinloanu in the Jomoro District for the proposed Gas Processing Plant was halted by a mob from the communities around the catchments area of the project on November 22. The communities are Bonyere, Ndumsuazo, Kabenlazuazo and Egbazo, Mr Agbogyan Tetteh, a native of Bonyere, told the GNA on Wednesday. He said the mob was demanding that Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) should negotiate with them on compensation to be paid as a result of the destruction of their crops by surveyors on the land demarcated for the project.

The leader of the GNPC survey team at the project site who did not give his name declined to give details of the mob action. He said a meeting had been scheduled with the aggrieved farmers at the instance of the Jomoro District Chief Executive, Mr Victor Nyianyi Kablan, to resolve the impasse. The survey works started about five months ago but are faced with opposition from some farmers who are demanding compensation for their crops which are being destroyed.