A group of concerned residents of McCarthy Hill in the Weija-Gbawe Municipality in Accra have petitioned the Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment, Science and Technology to intervene for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant permit for the continuation of work on the construction of the Empire Cement Factory at McCarthy Hill.
The residents made the appeal in a petition presented to the Committee on Environment, Science and Technology at Parliament House today.
Mr Andrews Agbayizah a concerned resident told Peace FM News that the Factory being constructed is a fulfilment of the President's flagship Program of One District One Factory and will create jobs for about thirteen thousand (13,000) youth in the area and other socio-economic benefits that will be derived from its operation.
According to the residents, the siting of the Factory will also open up the Weija- Gbawe Municipality .
Source: Emmanuel Akorli/Parliamentary Correspondent/Peace FM
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Please for the first place who granted them the permit to start the construction, cement factories are not set up in residential areas, please those who came where are their houses located, for political sake people will be gathered to protest but are they thinking about longtime health, are they thinking about the environment. Those setting up the factory where are they staying with their family, to my knowledge one is staying in Sakaman and the rest where are they staying. We should think about the people and not personal interest, we all support development but not this way. Cement factories have been set up in harbour and free zones enclave, in Ashanti Region the cement factory is at the outskirts of Ejisu so please authorities should think about our health and not someone’s personal interest.
It is highly impossible to please everyone. While some residents demonstrated that the construction should stop, another is demonstrating that the construction should go on. The question is, what at all can be done to satisfy everyone? No wonder politicians chance on minute things to make noise