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MORE HUGE ACCRA SECURITY COUNCIL TO WRECK HOUSES WORKED INSIDE SAKUMONO RAMSAR SITE

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More huge Accra Security Council to wreck houses worked inside Sakumono Ramsar site

The Greater Accra Regional Security Council has started an assessment to destroy many houses worked inside 1,200 fragments of spot that is known for the Sakumono Ramsar site.

 

The region holds gigantic number of gallons of water every time to forestall flooding in the encompassing associations. Nonetheless, this is at this point under risk considering mass infringement on the land.

 

Regions like East Legon and the Tema motorway have been supposed to flood soon assuming the site goes finished.

 

Normal Minister, Henry Quartey fears more locale will start to encounter flooding on the off chance that the Ramsar site isn't gotten.

 

"It recommends that people who are living in East Legon eventually, will be cut down expecting I am correct. Adjei Kojo, Ashaiman is possible going to be cut down. Adjriganor should there be any huge precipitation will be affected," he noted.

 

Sakumono Ramsar site

To save the contracting 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 what region, the distance they need between the change and the center. To make another center, that will really depend upon them yet certainly I can say that two or three houses will go down," he said.

 

Supervisor at the Sakumono Ramsar site, Thomas Acquah says the speed of infringement is disturbing.

 

Structures being set up at the Ramsar site

"As of now, as we are talking the center locale has been infringed upon. The help locale is likewise completely infringed concerning the change region is as of now full. As the entire spot goes, it will show up where the entire district will be explained as unrealistic to be utilized as a Ramsar site and that will battle with the entire country," he told JoyNews.

 

As shown by the Technical Advisor of the Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, David Kpelle, past endeavors to stop the further infringement of the safeguarded grounds was toned down.

 

Sakumono Ramsar site

"I have driven a decimation get-together to this spot. The Assemblyman, the Presiding Member, the administrators and land watches appeared at stop us. Security individuals went with us and they brought a court order. We went to court to put an order on the development and the Judge declined us and rather put a solicitation on Forestry Commission," he said.

 

At first exploring in excess of 3,500 areas of land, the Sakumono Ramsar site is one of five in Ghana. It fills in as holding straights for tremendous number of gallons of water from the bordering associations.

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