The government has provided compensation to over 500 individuals whose properties were damaged during a rock blasting incident at Buduburam, carried out by Nag Fairmount Construction Limited for the Kasoa-Winneba road project.
The October 2024 blast caused significant damage, destroying shops along the Kasoa-Winneba Highway and damaging building roofs with rock fragments. Tragically, three people lost their lives, and several others were injured.
While some recipients expressed dissatisfaction with the compensation amounts, Solomon Darko Quarm, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Gomoa East, confirmed that the government also provided inconvenience allowances to those affected.
After a lengthy wait, the government has fulfilled its promise, compensating over 500 individuals who suffered losses due to the incident. DCE Quarm clarified that the compensation was not funded by ECOWAS, as some rumors had suggested, but was directly provided by the government.
“This is a government of Ghana project, not ECOWAS as is being purported. All this shared propaganda is just because of the elections. We finished our work as a committee, and the contractor called that we must come for the money and distribute it to the affected people. Those in the first group and the last have all been factored in the distribution.”
Quarm also indicated that victims who lost their properties earlier in the year after a diversion and flooding of the Gomoa Okyereko stretch have been compensated in the form of building materials.
Meanwhile, the District National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Director, Robert Hackman, expressed disappointment at some recipients for over-pricing their destroyed properties, adding that this is bringing an additional burden to the committee.
