Several members of the Community wore red and black attire and hoisted placards on a protest march on Saturday to register their displeasure over the ongoing construction of the fuel station which shares boundary with inhabited homes.

The Assembly Member for the community, Felix Sobreh, told the media the developer continued to ignore desist orders from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), and that thousands of lives and property were being threatened with the construction.

 

The developer is alleged to have fuel storage tanks and gone ahead to fill them with fuel despite the order to halt the work. The ongoing construction is said to have affected utility lines and disrupted storm drain infrastructure causing flooding in some homes.

“The community petitioned the NPA and the Authority in their response stated clearly that the developer should halt the construction. They stated a lot of reasons why he should comply with the order,” the Assembly member said during the public demonstration.

Kofi Gantor Logah, conveynor of the event, said the approval of some unsuspecting individuals have been secured by the developer in what he claimed was a dubious undertaking. He therefore said the community would continue to seek available legal means in resisting the establishment of the filling station.

 

He claimed that the community had enough such service stations strategically and safely placed.

“We should not wait for another disaster to happen for ministers and public officials to go round hospitals and homes in the name of sympathising with the victims,” he said.

Several police personnel helped ensure a safe protest which terminated at the site of the construction.

Source: Gh Tribune

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