Keta resettlement houses ready, Monday, December 13, 2010, Spread
FOUR hundred and forty nine out of the 800 houses meant for the resettlement of victims of the floods caused by destructive tidal waves in the Keta Municipality have been completed.
An additional 115 houses which forms part of the Keta Sea Defence resettlement package is expected to be completed next year while the last batch of 236 houses would be constructed in 2012 to serve affected residents of Vodza, Kedzi and Adzido.
The housing project which is being funded by the Government of Ghana has so far consumed GHC 1,064,000 and is being undertaken by the Public Works Department with the support of local contractors.
In all, about 275.5 hectares of land is expected to be reclaimed, out of which 213 hectares would constitute land for habitation, industry and the creation of bird habitats as well as the promotion of
eco-tourism.
Also completed is an 80.5 metre-long flood control structure designed to check flooding and maintenance of the Keta lagoon at an acceptable level conducive for fishing.
At Vodza, Some parts of the town is still experiencing perennial flooding especially during the rainy season with pools of water spotted beside a number of houses.
The waves have washed away an asphalt road that runs through community. The community has also been left without a school as the floods have also been destroyed.
Addressing a durbar of chiefs and people of the beneficiary communities of the housing project, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr Alban Sumani Bagbin, said the Hydrological
Service Department of the Ministry would be tasked to survey the area in order to appropriately respond to the situation.
He assured the people of the government commitment to equity and fair play in distributing the national cake saying “we will do everythingpossible to ensure that you get what you are entitled to.”
He stated that the government would complement the effort of the resident of the area, who had started financing an electrical projectto connect the area to the national grid before the end of the year.
He said the Ministry would immediately devise measures to construct aschool in the community.
Earlier in a welcome address, the Dufia of Vodza, Torgbui Kukuborappealed to the government to address the sanitation needs of thecommunity.
An additional 115 houses which forms part of the Keta Sea Defence resettlement package is expected to be completed next year while the last batch of 236 houses would be constructed in 2012 to serve affected residents of Vodza, Kedzi and Adzido.
The housing project which is being funded by the Government of Ghana has so far consumed GHC 1,064,000 and is being undertaken by the Public Works Department with the support of local contractors.
In all, about 275.5 hectares of land is expected to be reclaimed, out of which 213 hectares would constitute land for habitation, industry and the creation of bird habitats as well as the promotion of
eco-tourism.
Also completed is an 80.5 metre-long flood control structure designed to check flooding and maintenance of the Keta lagoon at an acceptable level conducive for fishing.
At Vodza, Some parts of the town is still experiencing perennial flooding especially during the rainy season with pools of water spotted beside a number of houses.
The waves have washed away an asphalt road that runs through community. The community has also been left without a school as the floods have also been destroyed.
Addressing a durbar of chiefs and people of the beneficiary communities of the housing project, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr Alban Sumani Bagbin, said the Hydrological
Service Department of the Ministry would be tasked to survey the area in order to appropriately respond to the situation.
He assured the people of the government commitment to equity and fair play in distributing the national cake saying “we will do everythingpossible to ensure that you get what you are entitled to.”
He stated that the government would complement the effort of the resident of the area, who had started financing an electrical projectto connect the area to the national grid before the end of the year.
He said the Ministry would immediately devise measures to construct aschool in the community.
Earlier in a welcome address, the Dufia of Vodza, Torgbui Kukuborappealed to the government to address the sanitation needs of thecommunity.
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