The North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has expressed his indignation at the government’s ongoing inability to provide aid to those impacted by the Akosombo Dam disaster.
Even though the catastrophe happened almost a year ago, many of the impacted individuals are still living in camps without being paid or given the assistance they need to start over.
Over 1,300 impacted people still reside in camps, according to Ablakwa, who revealed this information during a stakeholder public hearing and criticized the government’s insufficient response.
He emphasized that, in spite of its establishment to tackle the matter, the government’s inter-ministerial committee had not interacted with Members of Parliament from affected districts.
“You heard the government set up a 30-member committee. We are the inter-ministerial committee. To be very honest with you, we are very disappointed that that committee has not met us even once. I mean, a lot of the members, we are in parliament with them. I would have thought that even if it’s parliament, we can meet here.”
“We can even meet at the cafeteria, even over coffee that, oh, share data with us or tell us what is happening. You know, not one meeting, not so, we don’t know if it was just maybe an announcement for the public for some cosmetic reason, but we don’t know.
The chiefs time without a number, they will even call us. You are in parliament with them. When is the committee coming? and we can’t provide answers because we are not, we haven’t been engaged.”
