Nzema youth stage peaceful protest over ‘missing’ Osagyefo power barge

Residents of Jomoro (Nzemaland), the majority of whom are young people, have held a peaceful demonstration in which they have demanded to know the location of the Osagyefo Power Barge.

They began their journey in the downtown district of Ekpu and made their way to Half Assini, the administrative center of the municipality.

According to a recent speech made on the floor of Parliament by a Deputy Minister of Energy named William Owuraku Aidoo, the Osagyefo Power Barge is going to be decommissioned since it has deteriorated due to excessive corrosion as a result of being idle since 2017.

However, the locals claim that the power barge was sold to a scrap dealer, who disassembled it as part of a contract that will see the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) receive sixty percent of the proceeds from the sale, while the private dealer will receive forty percent.

Therefore, the protestors are demanding that either a portion of the profits be handed to Jomoro or the entire barge be brought back.

Dr. Patrick Ekye Kwesie, president of the Nzema Youth League, has stated that he is in full support of whatever the youth decide to do in order to get to the bottom of the matter.

He stated that the barge can be utilized for a great variety of purposes; yet, the people of New Zealand are perplexed by the fact that it has vanished.

Dr. Kwesie has stated that it is not true that the 185 MW plant was ruined, and that they will do everything in their power as young people to find out the truth about the situation.