Officials from the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIRAnimal )'s Research Institute have warned of the institute's probable collapse due to extensive encroachment on the institute's lands.
They said that the development was jeopardizing research and technology growth as well as endangering the lives of employees.
Encroachers used weapons such as firearms and shot indiscriminately at times.
Many projects, including a piggery, a hatchery, a guinea fowl housing project, a sheep breeding pen, and a meat processing facility, have been destroyed as a result of the damaging actions on the more than 1,000-acre area at Frafraha, off the Adenta-Dodowa road.
The government and several foreign partners, such as the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), funded the initiatives.
The institute's staff housing and security installations have also been affected by the incursion.
Equipment that has been stolen
Dr Edmund Sottie, a Principal Researcher at the institute, told media on Tuesday, April 13, 2022, that thieves and land guards had taken research equipment as well.
"The criminals' and land guards' operations on our land are jeopardizing government and donor investments in research and development facilities here at the institution," he added.
There is some ongoing building on the Animal Research Institute's property.
He said that the issue had become an international embarrassment since the partners had to be told of the project's danger.