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GRIDCo Demolition: 3-month-old child and mother tracked down in rubble of obliterated structures
A three-month-old child and its mom have been left abandoned following the destruction by the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) at Bawaleshie on Tuesday.
As per the mother who lives with his significant other, a stylist, they would need to spend the night in the rubble since they have no place else to go.
She said they had to move from their past spot, Kofi Togo yard, where they were dwelling as vagrants to Bawaleshie.
"We have no place to rest. We don't have cash so I would rest by my child this evening," she told Joy News' Samuel Kojo Brace who detailed live from the destruction site.
On Tuesday, July 12, GRIDCo drove a taskforce to destroy unlawful designs sited under a portion of its high strain lines in the Ayawaso West Wuogon district.
The power age organization additionally made sense of that the site isn't appropriate for human residence.
Many the vagrants at Bawaleshie hurried to rescue their possessions to try not to be destroyed by the group.
Addressing JoyNews, the vagrants said they were not given earlier notification about the activity.
In any case, GRIDCo in a proclamation made sense of that its continuous destruction practice is to dispose of encroachers possessing its Right of Way.
GRIDCo said the exercises of encroachers "represent a danger to its transmission towers and a threat to the existences of encroachers."
Destruction practice intended to safeguard transmission pinnacles and lives of encroachers - GRIDCo
As per the organization, in October 2021, in association with distinguished locale congregations and the Media, GRIDCo embraced a cross country Right of Way sensitisation exercise to teach encroachers about the gamble related with their exercises along the Company's Right of Way.
GRIDCo noticed that during the sensitisation work out, it asked consistence with courses of events gave in media distributions to forestall any bothers.
"Under the Transmission Line Protection Regulations, 1967 (LI 542) as corrected by Regulation No. LI 1737 of 2004, it is an offense for people or foundations to lead any type of movement comparable to the grounds around the area of force transmission lines and pinnacles in Ghana," segments of the assertion from GRIDCo said.
Numerous different people have likewise been left abandoned after the destruction practice and have pursued for help from the public authority.
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