Angry residents of Boankra in Ejisu Municipality in the Ashanti Region are seething with anger over the delay in launching the inland port project.
Residents want to organize a massive demonstration to express their dissatisfaction with the delay in the implementation of a project to boost economic activities in the area.
Angry residents told Accra 100.5 FM 6am news on Friday, July 15, 2022 that when the government broke ground for the project under former President John Agyekum Kufour, many of them moved to the area. for the purchase of real estate prepared for the inland port take-off project.
They said that after decades nothing of the infrastructure for the project was seen in the area.
Residents said it was worrying that all the properties purchased in the area by private individuals have been abandoned due to government delays in starting the project.
They said the area has turned into a ghost town as most of the youth have left to seek greener pastures in and around Kumasi.
Samuel Fordjour, Assembly Member for Wiriso Boankra Constituency, said they have started processes to obtain the necessary permission from the police administration to register their protest against the government's decision to delay the project for over a decade.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on November 5, 2022 adjourned work to commence work on the US$330 million Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal project, popularly referred to as the Boankra Inland Port Project, which has been on the drawing board for some of us. 18 years.
The idea of the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal project has been brewing since the administration of the 2nd President of the 4th Republic, John Agyekum Kufuor. When trying to implement it, it encountered a number of problems, the most significant of which was the departure of the NPP government in 2009.
The President on Thursday, November 5, 2020, after cutting the sod for the construction of the port, explained that the Boankra Inland Port project was launched to serve importers and exporters in the central and northern parts of the country as well as act as a major channel for efficient transportation of transit traffic to and from our neighbors the landlocked countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
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