Enough of the disrespect Somey Chiefs cautions Ketu South Assembly LISTEN
FEB 15, 2021
The Chiefs in the Somey Traditional Area have said enough to what they claim are “disrespectful attitudes” by some members of the Ketu South Municipal Assembly.
The Chiefs said the Assembly-members had over the years shown “blatant disrespect to and disregard for the traditional authority” by failing to honour their invitations.
They contend failure for consultation before taking important decisions and warned they were not going to allow that to continue.
Torgbui Adamah III, the Paramount Chief, addressing a press conference to react to an earlier statement issued by the said Assembly-members, noted that officials of the Assembly ought to know that the “Somé Traditional Authority is not an appendage of the Ketu South Municipal Assembly, nor is it under the tutelage of the Assembly” to be treated as footstools of its officials.
Source: Albert Kuzor, Contributor
Adams Mensah of Seven Seas Salt Limited
Adams Mensahhe, Public Relations Officer of a salt production firm, Seven Seas Salt Limited, in Adina within the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region, has asked the government to invest in salt mining.
According to him, salt as a mineral has the potential of producing other chemicals such as soda ash, caustic soda, sodium chlorine, chlorine, hence the need to “take time to develop the salt sector”.
Speaking during a press engagement on Thursday, 21 January 2021 as part of the factory’s activities to educate the public on the importance of prioritising local businesses, he said there’s a need to identify the importance of salt.
Seven Seas Salt Mining Company (formerly Kensington Industries Ltd) operating at Adina in the Ketu South Municipality would on Tuesday, pay the community and other satellite communities affected by its operations.
Mr Elliot Edem Agbenorwu, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ketu South, who disclosed this said the compensation would go to communities which make up the Company’s Adina Concession (currently developed) including; Adina, Amutinu, Salakakope, Agbevekope and Kpedzakope.
He said it would also cover the Company’s yet-to-be developed Agavedzi-Blekusu Concession comprising Agavedzi, Blekusu, Dogbekope, Sonuto, Taskcorner and Tsavanya; and a new concession, White D’Or (formerly granted to White D’Or Company) comprising Hedzranawo, Adafienu, Tetekope and Agorko.
Residents of Aflao in the Ketu South Municipality have downplayed the three-month extension of government’s free water indicating the policy was of no use to them.
The aggrieved residents said they never benefitted from the relief package since its institution in April, last year, disclosing that water had stopped running through their taps for the past nine months.
The Government announced the absorption of water bills for all Ghanaians and provision of free electricity for lifeline consumers and 50 percent rebate for consumers beyond the lifeline threshold from April to the end of 2020 to cushion people from the economic effects of the pandemic.
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Some armed robbers have attacked a gas filling station, Roofsenaf Filling Station belonging to Mr Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Keta.
The Sunday dawn attack, on the filling station at Satsimadza near Agbozume in the Ketu South Municipality left the security man on duty with gunshot wounds, while making away with a sum of GH¢7000.00 and a pump action gun.
This is the second time the MP for Keta suffered attack from armed robbers within a month.
On December 11, armed men numbering about ten attacked his home at Anlo-Afiadenyigba in the Keta Municipality and among others, subjected him and family to severe beatings resulting in their hospitalisation.