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Angry occupants of Boankra in the Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti Region are fuming with outrage regarding the postpones in the beginning of the inland port task.
Occupants need to coordinate an enormous show to enlist their disappointment about the defers in having the venture to support financial exercises nearby.
The furious occupants told Accra 100.5 FM's 6:00 am news on Friday, July 15, 2022, that when the public authority got things started for the development of the venture during the rule of previous president John Agyekum Kufour, many were the people who moved to the area to buy properties in preparation for the remove the inland port task.
They expressed a very long time down the line nothing has been seen via framework for the task nearby.
The occupants got out whatever is stressing is that every one of the properties bought nearby by confidential people have been deserted as a result of the public authority's postpones in launching the undertaking.
They said the region has transformed into a phantom town on the grounds that most of the young have passed on to look for greener fields in Kumasi and its encompassing regions.
Assemblyman for Wiriso Boankra Electoral region, Samuel Fordjour said they have begun the cycles to look for the required consent from the police organization to empower them to enroll their dissent about the public authority's choice to defer the venture for more than 10 years.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on November 5, 2022 cut the turf for the beginning of work on the US$330 million Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal undertaking, famously alluded to as the Boankra Inland Port Project, which has been on the planning phase for about 18 years.
The possibility of the Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal venture has been ready to go since the times of the Government of the second President of the fourth Republic, John Agyekum Kufuor. In endeavoring to bring it into realization, it experienced various difficulties, a huge one being the exit of the NPP government in 2009.
Cutting the turf for the development of the Port on Thursday, fifth November 2020, the President made sense of that the Boankra Inland Port undertaking has been started to offer support to merchants and exporters in the center and northern pieces of the nation, and furthermore to go about as a significant channel for the effective transportation of travel traffic to and from our adjoining landlocked nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
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