TAKEOVER OF KETA LAGOON FOR $30,000
Dispossed salt miners along the Keta lagoon By Duke Nii Amartey Tagoe It has happened again! The pillage goes on and on. The Keta Lagoon in the Volta Region has been handed over to a salt mining company for $30,000 (Thirty Thousand Dollars). The deal between the Ghana Minerals Commission and Kensington Industries Limited of India, will enable the company grab 7000 acres of the entire lagoon whilst 300metres at the periphery representing 3 percent (3%) of the lagoon will be left for the local salt miners. What is worse, the company has departed from the agreement it signed with the Minerals Commission to use sea brine for salt production and has resorted to the use of surface water and underground pool by means of pipes and very huge pumping machines. It has also emerged that long before the Kensington Industries Limited was granted a license to mine salt in the Adina-Denu area, it had already encroached on lands belonging to the neighboring communities in flagr...