Government to relocate businesses to make way for Korle
Lagoon Development
Accra, June 9, Ghanadot/GNA -
Government is to relocate all business
activities at the Central Business District (CBD) and Old
Fadama to
Adjen Kotoku, located on the Accra-Nsawam road as part of
the Korle
Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project (KLERP).
The relocation is to stop all human activities that
contribute to the destruction of the Korle Lagoon
which has been described by
environmentalists as one of the most polluted water
bodies in the world.
In an interview with the GNA on Tuesday, Mr. Sam Baidoo,
Chief
Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Water Resources, Works
and
Housing, said government had acquired about 800 acres of
land at Adjen Kotoku where new
housing projects, commercial and industrial areas
would be developed.
"These will include the development of timber and bulk
breaking
markets, residential areas, access roads to Adjen Kotoku,
water
supply, sewerage treatments and water drainages", he said.
He said the redevelopment of Adjen Kotoku, which ias phase 4
of
the KLERP, would also include the provision of transport
terminals,
educational, health and security services.
Mr. Baidoo said the project, which is ongoing, is sponsored
by the
government, BADEA, OPEC Fund and the government of Kuwait.
He said the overall concept of the relocation was to have an
integrated community and the improvement of the living
standards at
the new location.
"This concept was developed under the slum upgrading
strategy in
the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy 11", he said.
The project would be completed in June 2011 would also
affect
areas such as the Agbogbloshie and timber markets and
squatters around the KLERP
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