The Ghana Boundary Commission and the Togo Lands Commission, through dialogue, have been able to resolve the long-standing boundary dispute with reference to the Pulmakom border in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region. The stakeholders at the dialogue, which took place at Cinkasse in Togo, agreed that per the legal and national demarcation documents prepared in the 1920s, the Kolpelig River was the official boundary separating the two countries. Major General Dr Emmanuel Kotia, the National Coordinator, Ghana Boundary Commission, said after a joint discussion and visit to the places of contention, the two countries had clearly understood and appreciated the issue and had resolved to let peace prevail.
Ghana, Togo resolve boundary dispute
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Lack of bridge over White Volta cut off residents of Kultamise from other communities
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Emmanuel Dankwa Osafo, the Deputy Chief Executive in charge of Engineering and Operations of the Volta River Authority (VRA), says actual construction work on the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam and Irrigation project would start this year.
He said they had spent some time in designs, data collection and surveys, among others and would be liaising with other state agencies to discuss the resettlement of people presently occupying the area that would be covered by the reservoir.
“On paper we have, but we have gone on the field and marked, so everybody knows which areas will be affected. All these have been documented for purposes of compensation and relocation,” he said.