The Eminent of the Ga-Dangbe Group, a youth group in Ada in the Accra has lauded the positive impact McDan’s’ Electrochem Company has is having on the lives of the good people of Ada and its surrounding villages.
Speaking to the media during a tour of the Songor project site by the group yesterday, leader of the Group, Dr. Nii Naate Atswele Agbo Nartey disclosed that the people of Ada have benefited immensely by the presence of Electrochem company in the area more than they had expected.
Mr. Jordan Dodoo, Reverend Jessey Ankrah and many other prominent Dangbes were part of the delegation that visited the site.
“The deafening drumming about the allegations that Songor was being taken away from the people of Ada to benefit an individual has proven to be factually inaccurate “ he stated.
“All the allegations against the company in the area were all a cacophonic display of cynicism, mischief, treachery and, above all, ignorance. Songor, actually had been a dead water body for decades of years,” Venerable Dr. Nartey disclosed.
The lagoon, he said, got almost silted and turned into a dumping ground for all kinds of wastes like; scattered pieces of rubbish and animals remains where some Ada natives often got sick from environmental pollutants such as smelling dead animals until the presence of the Electrochem company.
“the state of the Songor then was the biggest health concern of the good people of the area because whenever it rained, the decomposed bodies of the dead animals leached from the lagoon into the floods” he indicated.
The little portion of the water left, which was of no any economic significance, had little life left in it. The tiniest part of the Songor water body became a crowded point of the survival of the fitters.
From the traditional leaders, politicians, opinion leaders to the ordinary citizens of Ada, nobody, in fact, nobody seemed to have an idea as to why Songor was almost dead and how it could be resuscitated. By the year 2013, the Zanor stream, which used to come through Battor, Aveyime, Sege, Agbedrafo, Bonikope, Toflokpo, among others, and which were keeping the Songor alive had sadly gone home, completely dried up.
Dr. Nii Naate Atswele Agbo stated that, “But for the timely and Godly intervention of Electrochem Ghana Limited under the able leadership of Dr. Daniel Nii Nshia McKorley who was enstooled as Ada’s Development Chief, with the Stool name Nene Kabu Koranteng l, Songor today would have been like a swathe or a silted expanse of desolate and fruitless land.”
He stated that the experts of Electrochem have been able to design a master plan towards reviving and restoring Songor to its natural ecological state to admiration of all.
“The experts decided to embark on that task progressively. Thus, in the Songor, a kind of water divide was created, namely India, Pacific and Atlantic. Currently, India has been successfully filled with water and aquatic life restored. Thankfully, the neighbouring residents have already and aggressively begun fishing for their livelihood. Really, they have profoundly expressed their excitement and gratitude to Electrochem for making Songor an economic hub again for the people of Ada” the Convener noted.
He was optimistic that the current situation is going to get better by the time the entire expanse of Songor will be completely.
