Official commissioning and handover of the rebuilt Appiatse community

The Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government will officially commission and hand over the rebuilt Appiatse community to the victims of the Appiatse disaster, on Thursday, May 2, 2024.

On Thursday, January 20, 2022, Appiatse, a mining community in the Prestea Huni Valley Municipal Assembly in the Western Region, was destroyed when a truck transporting explosives to a mining site exploded in the community.

Appiatse was left in ruins and almost all of the community’s structures were destroyed. About 13 people are reported to have died as a result of the incident and several others suffered injuries of varying degrees.

The Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government, through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, established the Appiatse Support Fund, chaired by Dr. Joyce Aryee, and the Appiatse Reconstruction Implementation Committee to raise the necessary funds and ensure community redevelopment.

Two years later, the first phase of Appiatse’s redevelopment was completed and the mining community, which was in ruins, now looks like a modern community.

The government, in collaboration with its partners, will hand over the new community, which has about 120 family-sized bungalows arranged in a grid, to the victims of the explosion.

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