Owners of
the lands that house the University Health and allied sciences at Sokode near
Ho in the Volta region are threatening to demonstrate on Wednesday over
government’s failure to pay them compensation for lands acquired for the
establishment of the university.
They expressed shock that their compensation
packages were not captured in the 2016
budget.
At a press
conference in Ho, the group said despite an earlier promise by the Volta Regional
Minister, Helen Adwoa Ntoso to make provisions for the payment of the
compensation due them in the 2016 National Budget, the budget read on Friday did not capture that.
“The regional
minister promised that the compensation owed to the University of Health and
Allied Sciences Land Owners Association, Volta region would be added to provisions
in the 2016 National Budget. Recently the 2016 National Budget statement was
made public without any mention of the University of Health and Allied Sciences
Land Owners Association’s compensation”
The landowners explain that this contravenes the provisions made in the
Article 20(2) of the 1992 Constitution which mandates prompt payments of
compensation for compulsory acquisition of land by the state. The
chairman of the association, Benoni Glalah said the protest would be organized
in Ho on Wednesday to drum home their demands.
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