Ghana’s power transmission company, GRIDCo, has demolished several unauthorised structures sited under its pylons from American house through to Dzorwulu, a suburb of Accra, capital of Ghana.
Some of the structures include drinking spots, wooden houses, chop bars, fitting shops, ghettos, block buildings. The demolishing exercise resulted in over a thousand people being rendered homeless.
The exercise followed warning notice by the power transmission company asking all those who have put up structures under their pylons to evacuate due to the dangers associated with living under the pylons.
When energynewsafrica.com team got to the scene on Saturday, scores of the victims were seen gathering their losses. Some of the victims told energynewsafrica.com that the area was invaded by security personnel without their notice around 3am Friday.
A women alleged that the security personnel gave her some beating even though she had a child at her back.
According to a man who gave his name as Capii, the number of people who have been rendered homeless by the demolition exercise is over 1000 including school children.
They accused the Akufo-Addo administration of treating them badly saying elsewhere they would have been given them some money to enable them go and rent apartments.
According to some of them, they do not have anywhere to go and therefore warned that they do not expect the Hon. Lydia Seyram Alhassan, who is the Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon to come there to campaign ahead of 2020 General Election.
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Source: www.energynewsafrica.com