The Gyaasehene of Abotoase, Nana Ansah Asiedu,
has appealed to the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to resume the payment of compensations due them as a
result of the construction of the Volta Lake, which continues to claim their
lands. His request to Nana Akufo-Addo is borne out of the fact that,
“President Mahama is already gone. He has lost the elections.”
Nana Ansah
Asiedu made this known when the NPP flagbearer paid a courtesy call on him at
his palace in Abotoase, in the Biakoye constituency, on Monday, October 24,
2016.
The Abotoase Chief explained that under the resettlement package,
which was instituted by a Legal Instrument passed by Parliament, “compensation
payments commenced under President Kufuor.
The late President Mills
continued with these payments. However, upon assuming office, President Mahama
has decided to stop paying compensation to us.”
Funds from the
resettlement package, according to Nana Ansah Asiedu, were used in the
construction of the only institution of higher learning in the town, the Aboatse
Senior High and Technical school.
The cessation of payment of
compensation to them, he added, has led to the Chiefs and people seeking redress
at the courts.
“Maybe, before he exits power, he will still decide not
to pay us compensation. Nonetheless, he will go (in December). He has no choice
but to go. So we are appealing to you (Nana Akufo-Addo) to resume the payments
of compensation when you come into office in Jamuary 2017 because it is the
means by which some of my people survive,” the Abotoase Chief
added.
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