The Songhor Lagoon area is the traditional home of the indigenous Ga Dangbe people living around it, who have lived off the saltwinning carried out there, for centuries. It can thus be argued that in spirit their traditional saltwinning, falls under the rIghts stipulated in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007.
Globally, all civilised nations agree that "indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and develop their traditional political, economic and social systems or institutions, to secure in the enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and development, and to engage freely in all their traditional and other economic activities."
One doubts very much that public opinion in Ghana wouldn't turn against Electrochem Ghana Limited, if its one-sided agreement was made widely known. There are many fair-minded discerning Ghanaians, who feel that it is unconscionable that Electrochem, and its regime-backers, are using military personnel from the Ghana Armed Forces, to subjugate the indegenous Ga Dangbes, of the Songhor Lagoon area.
They are not galamsayers, are they? Massa, the vast majority of Ghanaians are now thoroughly fed up with the fact that they continue to live in an unfair society, which is corruption-riddled, and, has been dominated for nearly two decades now, by big-thieves-in-high-places, ooooo. Yooooooooo...
Power in Ghana, a democracy, is transient - just as it is in all genuine democracies the world over. The question the promoters of Electrochem must ask themselves is: What if a Jerry Rawlings-type figure takes over Ghana? That is a real possibility now. Would Electrochem's unfair one-sided agreement survive? The company's owners would be wise to see the indigenous Songhor Lagoon people as win-win-partners and make the original J. J. Rawlings Masterplan the basis of their relationship with them, oooo. Yooooooo...
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