Sunday 13 March 2022

Why the residents of Bogoso-Appiatse must take their destiny into their own hands

In any serious country, in which a truck laden with explosives, had been involved in an accident that wiped out a whole rural community, destroying about 500 houses, an architectural design competition, offering the winner GHc3 million, to design a new model climate-resilient village, made up of 500 homesteads, each surrounded by fruit forest garden compounds, and built using plastic building  blocks, with a network of plastic paving block community roads,  with both sides lined with fruit trees, would have been announced by now.
 
Furthermore, one wonders whether or not the hapless residents of Bogoso-Appiatse, have had any post traumatic stress disorder counselling, yet. Hmmm , eyeasem, ooooo...

Above all, one's humble advice to the residents of Bogoso-Appiatse, is that they ought to take their collective-destiny into their own hands, and contact the public interest the leading Ghanaian legal NGO, Centre for Public Interest Law  (CEPIL), and ask them to collaborate with the U.S. public interest law firm that won compensation for the Ogoni people of Nigeria, in the U.S. law courts, from oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, and sue for appropriately large compensation, from the mining company, whose criminal negligence, has resulted  in the catastrophe, which has turned their lives upside down in such apocalyptic fashion.

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