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ACCRA. – Ghana’s Upper West Regional Minister, Dr Ephraim Avea Nsoh, has directed that all telecommunications firms to take down the masts they erected in the Wa airstrip or face sanctions. He said the location of the masts was affecting the flow of commercial flights to the region airstrip.The official said the companies such as MTN, Vodafone, tiGo and Airtel had previously resisted calls to dismantle the structures.
He could not specify on action his administration would take if the companies resisted.
“I want to sound a caution to everybody that we are determined to improve and develop that region and much as we encourage private sector businesses. We are not ready to give up something that the people of the region deserve.
The people from the region deserve the best. They deserve commercial flights and they will have them. I am not going to give up on that,” said Nsoh.
The regional minister also urged squatters around the airstrip to evacuate or have their structures demolished.
“I have made it clear throughout my interactions with people in the community that those people must go. Fortunately, not a single one of them have permits so all of them are illegal structures.
However, they are all Ghanaians so we have to give them that human face despite the fact that they have made some mistakes,” said Nsoh.
According to him, his administration will draft a plan to help the squatters move gradually.
“Beyond that human face, will be the monster face where anybody that stays there beyond that kind of engagement, we will have to break them down,” Nsoh said. – CAJ News.
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