C/R: Gomoa Chiefs Want Government To Demolish Liberia Camp

Angry Chiefs of the Gomoa Fetteh in in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region are calling on government to immediately demolish Budumburam also known as the Liberia Camp to help reduce criminal activities in the area. Speaking in an interview after a press conference at Gomoa Fetteh, the Chief of Gomoa Fetteh Nana Abor

Atta said, the government must demolish all the Liberia Camp and use all the land to construct Schools, Market, and a Community Center for the area. He added that the Chiefs are all worried about the High rate of criminals in the area so the best thing for the government to do is to demolish the camp which was set up for refugees in the

90s. The chief hinted that several petitions have been sent to the president for the camp to be demolished but nothing has been done yet. According to the Chief, the area has also become a hideout for the criminals who perpetuate various crimes in the area and other parts of the country. Nana Abor Atta adds that demolishing the

camp will go a long way to drive the criminals out of the area and peace to the Kasoa and its environs. After the beginning of the Liberian civil war in 1989, the Ghanaian government established the Buduburam refugee camp in 1990 in response to the arrival of displaced Liberians in the country. After the final ceasefire agreement of the war in 2003, UNHCR repeatedly urged the repatriation of

refugees to Liberia. The pace of repatriation, however, was sluggish among the remaining Liberians in Ghana due to precarious political and economic environment in Liberia. Many Liberian refugees in Ghana had been hoping for third-country resettlement but, with peace restored in Liberia, most no longer met the criteria for resettlement.