[ 2014-09-18 ]

EPA Stops Illegal Filling Station
Residents of 'Fitting Junction', near Effia on the
Takoradi-Kojokrom road, have indicated that their
lives are in danger following an attempt by a
certain businessman to put up a petrol filling
station right in the middle the residential area.

Some of the residents alleged that despite the
fact that most of the people around had spoken
against the setting up of the station, work on the
project was ongoing.

They asserted that information they gathered
indicated that the said businessman is an activist
of the ruling National Democratic Congress and so
it had become difficult for the city authorities
to stop him.

The people around could not fathom why such an
enclosed area should be given to someone to
operate a filling station.

The residents intimated that the area where the
tank to store the gasoline of the filling station
would be buried, was the same path children in the
area used when going to school.

When visited , it was revealed that the area where
a trench had been dug for the petrol tank was
surrounded by houses.

The paper also gathered that the path used by
school children in the area became muddy whenever
rain fell on the abandoned clay soil from the
trench.

Residents told DAILY GUIDE in separate interviews
that it would be proper that the relevant
institutions stepped in to halt the project.

According to them, they would be very surprised if
the said businessman is given a permit to go ahead
with the project.

Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) indicated that it had not given anybody a
permit to put up a filling station in that area.

Speaking on the issue, George Diawuo of the
Western regional office of the EPA, said;

“I have personally visited the place after
several complaints from the residents. And the EPA
has stopped the project because the owner has no
permit to work.”

He urged the residents to be rest assured that
there would be no petrol filling station in the
residential area.

Source - Daily Guide

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