Penkye Fish Processing Plant Abandoned, Residents Demand Accountability
A multi-thousand-cedi fish processing facility built under the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo-Bawumia administration to modernize fish preservation in Penkye has been left abandoned, deteriorating into a sanitation hazard and crippling the livelihoods of fishermen and fishmongers. The plant, meant to replace traditional methods such as smoking and salting, has never been commissioned. Years of neglect have rendered it unusable, forcing the community back to outdated preservation practices ill-suited for Penkye’s humid environment. During a recent visit, Bernard Kwame Dogbey, a level 300 journalism student at the University of Education, Winneba, found a community frustrated and struggling. Beyond piles of refuse and choked gutters, the lack of a functioning preservation system stood out as the central challenge. Fishmonger Ama Asantewaa described the loss:“We lose a lot of our catch to spoilage because we cannot preserve it properly. Smoking […]