BUDUBURAM RESIDENTS VACATE AHEAD OF DEMOLISHING
Buduburam Residents Vacate Ahead Of Demolishing Exercise.
Many residents of the Buduburam Camp have begun vacating the place following the expiration of the deadline given them to leave for its redevelopment. Late Wednesday and early yesterday, the Daily Graphic saw trucks carrying the personal effects of some of the residents leaving the camp.
Mostly Ghanaians and Nigerians, the residents were adhering to a final notice given by the Gomoa East District Assembly to people living at the camp to leave by September 30.
However, others, mostly Liberians, remained defiant, saying they did not have anywhere to go.
Final notice
The assembly had, last Wednesday, issued a final notice to people living at the camp to leave by September 30.
The notice, signed by the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Solomon Darko-Quarm, said the September 30 date had not been extended, and that people living at the defunct Liberia Camp were to leave.
Frustration
Following the notice, the Liberian residents converged on the frontage of the St Gregory Hospital to voice their frustration.
In separate interviews with the Daily Graphic, some of them said the way and manner in which they were being asked to leave was not right.
They said the decision of the assembly should have been channelled through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ghana Refugee Board, since it was through the UN body and the government of Ghana that they settled at the camp.
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