Nzema Youth Protest Over ‘Missing’ Osagyefo Power Barge

Residents of Jomoro (Nzemaland), mostly the youth, have staged a peaceful protest by demanding the whereabouts of the Osagyefo Power Barge.

They walked through some principal streets of Ekpu and ended at Half Assini, the capital of the municipality.

The Osagyefo Power Barge, according to a Deputy Minister of Energy, William Owuraku Aidoo, in a recent statement on the floor of Parliament, is to be decommissioned because it has suffered deterioration from excessive corrosion as a result of idleness since 2017.

The residents are, however, alleging that the power barge has been sold out to a scrap dealer who has dismantled it in a deal which will see 60 percent of the proceeds going to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) with 40 percent going to the private dealer.

The protestors are, therefore, calling for either a share of the proceeds to be given to Jomoro or the entire barge brought back.

President of the Nzema Youth League Dr. Patrick Ekye Kwesie said he supports whatever the youth will do to get to the bottom of the issue.

He said the barge can be used for so many things but its disappearance is strange to the people of Nzemaland.

Dr. Kwesie said it’s not true the 185 MW plant got spoiled and they will do all they can as youth to get to the bottom of the matter.