Payment of compensation to people whose properties were destroyed as a result of the construction of transmission lines for the Bui Power Project started yesterday. Beneficiaries in two out of the 41 communities along the Bui-Kintampo transmission lines received payments yesterday. Even though it was announced that the payments would start on February 17, it started a day later.
It is expected that by the end of the exercise, 885 people whose crops, buildings and structures were affected by the construction of the transmission lines would be compensated.
Payments are scheduled to be completed next week.
Challenges
The exercise has been fraught with challenges. Some of the beneficiaries have not been able to provide the required documents that would ensure that they are compensated.
The External Relations Manager of the Bui Power Authority, Mr Wumbila Salifu, told the Daily Graphic that “the cheques of some beneficiaries have been withheld s
