Property Owners Of Bunso Enyiresi Bypass Roads Picketing At Jasmore Construction Site For Compensation

Property and business owners affected by the construction of the Akyem Bunso, Osino, and Enyiresi Bypass in the Eastern Region are threatening to interrupt ongoing works on the stretch of the Accra Kumasi highway over failure to be compensated.

Scores of property and business owners affected by the Bunso-Oaino and the Anyinam-Enyiresi bypass road projects are picketing at the Jasmore construction site at Akyem Asiakwa Junctions in the Eastern Region to demand their compensation due them or risk a blockade of the two major roads connecting Accra to other parts of the country.

The affected people include landlords, chop-bar operators, mechanics, farmers, w, elders and electricians, whose properties were demolished to pave the way for the construction of the two major roads that may pass as the busiest roads connecting the two largest cities in the country mdash; Accra and Kumasi.

Speaking to news reporter Jesse Amankwah, the leader and spokesperson for the group, Berimah Ansah Sasaraku Ofram II chief of Akyem Akyem Ankaase, noted that the demolition of their structures for the construction of the two roads had plunged them into all sorts of hardships.

According to him, Some of their fellow property owners died within the period of wait, many of them had been rendered homeless, while others were being chased by their bankers for the recovery of loans they contracted for their businesses,

Meanwhile, the aggrieved affected property and business owners said the government had failed to honor many promises to meet them and address their concerns,

They, therefore, called on authorities to immediately pay their compensation, which is rightfully and legally due to them, without further delay.