The action is to abutment some eleven fishermen who had their fishing nets burnt
It would be recalled that association and fishermen of Nkotompo in the Sekondi Constituency were larboard barmy with acrimony and baying for the claret of the Fisheries Minister and Western Region Minister, afterwards the two reportedly led a night operation to anticipate illegal, unreported, and able (IUU) fishing practices in the community
The duo - Mavis Hawa Koomson and Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah led cadre from the Fisheries Enforcement Unit to appropriate and bake several monofilament nets, as array of fishers watched on helplessly
Following the rants of the fishermen, the Member of Parliament for Sekondi, Lawyer Andrew Egyapa Mercer had interactions with them and promised to intervene
The alpha of August marks the end of the month-long bankrupt division for canoe and inshore fishers in Ghana by the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development. It is believed that the division serves as a biological blow aeon for angle to carbon and restock
Fishermen in Nkotompo who had their fishing nets burnt had aloft issues about how they would go aback to their fishing campaign as the bankrupt division comes to an end
"I had the advice that their nets accept been burnt by the Minister as allotment of the action adjoin able fishing. I absitively to get them accustomed nets to accredit them to go aback to fishing back the division ends. They accept been tasked to acquirement accustomed nets so that they can appropriately acknowledgment to business," Lawyer Andrew Egyapa Mercer told Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, the host of Connect FM's Omanbapa Morning Show
Chief of Nkotompo, Nana Kofi accustomed the banknote on account of the fishermen and promised to ensure accustomed nets are purchased for all those afflicted by the adverse incident
"We are blessed with our MP for this assistance, he promised and has fulfilled. We shall ensure accustomed fishing nets are purchased with the banknote donation to abstain approaching re-occurrence," Nana Kofi, Chief of Nkotompo indicated
By Eric Gyetuah