PRESS RELEASE
GHANA’S FIRST EVER GAS PROCESSING PLANT
WERE WE EVER TOLD THE TRUTH?
We the youth of Jomoro are forced to react to some falsehood and misinformation that have been made and continue to be made by the CEO of Ghana Gas, Dr. Sipa Yankey, since his appointment as the chief executive officer of Ghana Gas all he has been doing is using lies and half-truth to build up the Gas processing plant.
Dr. Yankey was given $850million and a huge parcel of land that had been earmarked for the project, upon assumption of office the first thing he set out to do was to relocate the project from its original location to another, for reasons best known to himself, when eyebrows were raised about the relocation of the project he gave many misleading reasons.
1: Dr. Yankey said the relocation has come about because SINOPEC the Chinese firm that had been contracted to build the processing plant preferred the Atuabo enclave to that of the Domunli even when he knew for sure that SINOPEC had not been to the Domunli area and therefore could not have arrived at that conclusion.
2: Dr. Yankey also claimed that there was no access road to the Domunli enclave and therefore it will cost the Nation huge sums of money if we had to construct a 3km access road to the Domunli enclave. The question is how much has it cost the Nation to rehabilitate the bridges at Ellembele since before the project started Dr. Yankey claimed they had spent five hundred and seventy thousand Ghana cedis to rehabilitate those two bridges, how much more did they spend when the bridge almost caved in. In any case did he inform anyone before using five hundred and seventy thousand Ghana cedis to rehabilitate the bridges.
3: Dr. Yankey also claimed Bokakole, a hamlet in the middle of the Domunli enclave had developed so much that they could not resettle them, when in actual sense the hamlet had only three mud structures with less than 12 inhabitants. The question is why did he lie about the number of structures in the enclave if truly the relocation was necessitated by technical reasons?
4: Dr. Yankey went to the extent of misinforming the late former President when he told him that, we were likely to save cost if the project was relocated to the Atuabo enclave because we were going to save 25km of the pipelines, being the distance between the Domunli enclave and the Atuabo enclave even though he knew that in moving the project to the Atuabo enclave two pipelines are to be constructed to the Domunli enclave since VRA is to operate from the enclave.
Finally why has Ghana Gas not conducted an environmental impact assessment for the Gas processing plant since it is supposed to be refining the associated gas from the jubilee field? If Tullow whose operation is 50km off the shore of our coastline should conduct an environmental impact assessment for all six coastal districts in the Western Region why should Ghana Gas who’s operation is in the middle of human inhabitants should fail conduct one. What happens to the thousands of inhabitants in the three communities around the Atuabo enclave if obnoxious gases are released into the atmosphere?
We also find it very strange why Dr. Yankey would like to blame his incompetence and lack of sound judgment on some gods in the area when he sat on radio and complained that one of the four gods at the site, who does not want to be a stranger so will not want to be resettled and is therefore slowing down the progress of work but is asking for a cow and some drinks The lives of those living in the Atuabo enclaves are being sacrificed without any justifiable reason, if an LPG station would not be allowed to be sighted in the middle of inhabitants why should the processing plant be allowed to be built in the midst of human inhabitants without an environmental impact assessment report.
We are by this press release calling on all well-meaning Ghanaian s to come out and question why the environmental impact assessment should not be conducted, we are also asking, so we don’t wait till the harm had been caused before we ask how come it happened, the integrity of the project will have to be assured and filling a flood prone land and putting the project on does not give us the desired assurance. We are responding to these issues because we want the whole nation to be aware of the fraud that is being perpetrated on us.
MARK ASMAH ARTHUR , ,
(SECRETARY)
STEPHEN K. TETTEH ,
(EXECUTIVE MEMBER)
ALBERT B. AFFUL , 0277482606
(EXECUTIVE MEMBER)
01-10-2012
Monday, 1 October 2012
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Ekpu near Half-Assini in the Jomoro District gets six-unit classroom block.
Ekpu near Half-Assini in the Jomoro District gets six-unit classroom block.
Mr. Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Regional Minister on Friday inaugurated a six-unit classroom, an office, library and four-seater W/C toilet costing GH¢140,000 at Ekpu near Half-Assini in the Jomoro District.
Speaking at the ceremony which formed part of the Minister’s working visit to the area, he said promoting education in the country should be a shared responsibility between Government and parents.
Mr. Aidoo said Government would provide the classrooms and teachers while the parents would be expected to send their children to school.
Mr. Aidoo appealed to parents to seek redress with School Management Committees and the Parent-Teacher Associations concerning their children rather than physically attacking teachers.
He appealed to the people to plant tree seedlings in the community to serve as wind-break.
Mr Nelson Nyankey, Public Relations Officer of the Jomoro District Education Directorate, commended Government for promoting education in the country.
He asked parents to send their children to school to justify the huge investment government was making in education.
Mr. Benle Armo-Kyie, an elder of Ekpu, on behalf of the chiefs, thanked Government for the execution of the school project, and appealed for the provision of Information and Communication Technology Centre, computers, furniture and extension of the School Feeding Programme to the school.
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