For nearly eight years, there has been no development on the port, even though an office was built at Kedzi, which is part of the Keta Municipality in the Volta Region.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would release an environmental and social impact assessment study, which would be given to possible investors as part of the port development process, the GPHA Director stated, notwithstanding these delays.
Michael Luguje stated that the administration has not yet received any formal proposals from investors interested in the project while speaking with press about it.
“We have already begun interacting with potential investors while we wait for the environmental and social impact assessment,” he said. To date, more than six domestic and foreign businesses have expressed interest in working with the government to develop the port.
“They also require the environmental and social impact assessment report to help guide and refine the proposals they will submit to us.”
He went on to say, “We want to deliver the report to these investors within the next month or two following the EPA’s release of the report. After reviewing it, they will try to put forth more detailed suggestions regarding the kind of cooperation they hope to form with us for the development and management of the Port of Keta.”
An Executive Instrument (EI), officially establishing the location at Keta as the Port of Keta, to be overseen by the GPHA, was signed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2018.
Residents and stakeholders have long complained about the government’s slow progress in building the port, which they see as essential to the socioeconomic advancement of the Volta Region.
