Gunshot breakout at Ada Toflokpo salon as thugs shoot six persons in protest against McDan-ElectroChem to mine salt at Ada Songor
The thugs were alleged to have been hired by the owners of Electrochem Ghana Limited with reasons that the six victims were among the people of from the Lufenya, Kablevu, Luhuor, Kpotitsekope, Aminapa, Midea communities who protest against three investment leases granted to the company (Electrochem Ghana Limited) to win salt in the Songor Lagoon.
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Six persons were repeatedly to have been shot by unknown hired thugs at Ada Toflokpo Salon in Ada Traditional Area of the Greater Accra Region.
The shooting incident which was said to have been reported to Ada District Police Command occurred on Friday, February 5, 2021, 10: 20 AM.
The six citizens, according to the sources closed to the area, were gunned down by the gunmen in their various homes at Ada Toflokpo Salon, a suburb of Ada without any provocations and ran away.
A couple of weeks ago, the residents from Kablevu, Luhuor, Kpotitsekope, Lufenya, Aminapa and Midea under the jurisdiction of Ada Songor in the Greater Accra Region staged a massive protest against three investment leases granted to the company to win salt in the Songor Lagoon.
The pandemonium was a result of the decision of the aggrieved citizens made of traditional priests and priestesses from these areas in Ada Area to embark on a red demonstration for revocation of salt mining licenses of Electrochem Ghana Limited, the salt mining company owned by McDan, a renowned businessman in Accra.
Scores of people from various parts of Ada communities marched through the principal streets of Ada to protest against three investment leases granted to the company to win salt in the Songor Lagoon.
Members of communities such as Lufenya, Kablevu, Luhuor, Kpotitsekope, Aminapa, Midea among others clad in in red attire expressed their disinterest with various inscriptions to express their dissatisfaction for government to discontinue an agreement for salt winning company.
The agreement leases ratified by parliament among other things mandates the company to engage in winning salt in an area of about 39,166 acres of land for 15 years subject to the mining laws of Ghana.
Addressing members of the community, the Libi wornor, Numor Apedo Ayornu also known as the salt priest, who is the custodian of the Songor Lagoon said that the lagoon which has been the main source of livelihood for the people of Ada cannot be leased to a single entity on the pretext of solving an old conflict which has evolved for decades without following the due process involved.
According to the Traditional priest, the paramount chief of Ada does not have the authority to allow the said company to work on the songor lagoon and surrounding communities without the express permission of the Libi wornor who is the custodian of the lagoon.
The traditional priest indicated that the entire Songor lagoon together with other fishing and farming lands have been bundled into three concessions as Ada songor, B and C and granted to Electrochem Gh. Ltd, a company allegedly owned by Mr Daniel Mckorley popularly known as McDan.
The youths and elders, therefore, appealed to government to cancel the three lease agreement granted the company to enable the inhabitants to continue to win salt and engage in other related farming activities as their only source of livelihood for over 400 years.
More to come...
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater Accra Regional Chief Correspondent
