Volta River Development Act News Today

Communities along the bank of the dam have been victims of injustice since the early 1960s.

While I loved playing Snakes and Ladders, the possibility of being bitten by a snake when one has virtually reached the point of winning the game made me hate it too. What made it even more loathly is that, there is a particular snake whose bite takes you all the way to the beginning of the game. Frustration, shame and teasing become your portion among your peers. That is, if you are unable to land on any of the ladders that would propel you back to the top, sooner than later.

According to the World Bank, 84% of Ghana’s population is connected to electricity supply as at 2017, a high access rate, ranking Ghana second country in the Sub-Saharan African continent after South Africa but cited a disparity between rural and urban access. However, about 759 million people worldwide lack access…