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The Rural Technology Facility (RTF) built in Somanya, and located on the Somanya-Okwenya road, is rotting away peacefully. This facility is supposed to be functioning but it is not. This RTF is said to be under the Business Advisory Center (BAC) department of the Yilo Klo Municipal assembly. The RTF in the Weed Our team upon getting to the facility spoke to a man (whose name is withheld) confirmed that, the place has not been working. He said that there used to be heavy machinery which is believed to have supported farmers in a kind of post-processing factory but the machines have been stolen sometime back though there may be some left. From a very reliable source from the Yilo Klo Municipal assembly, the BAC department is to be responsible why the place is not functioning. The facility in the bush We are questioning the leadership of the Yilo Klo Municipality why isn’t the facility functioning, why can’t it be put to use on a small-scale project that would be serv...

Issues affect people in rural Ghana and it always looks as if we have no one in charge to complain to or share with. For days, weeks, seasons and years the hyacinth weed along the Volta Lake affects the indigenes staying along the Volta Lake. Canoes anchored due to blockage of the huge hyacinth weed The hyacinth weed has taken charge of the Volta lake again, determining whether people get their daily bread or not and as to whether people travel across from their islands to other places or not. On Sunday, 6 th January 2019, some team members of the development geek were held for 3 hours in Agbeve an island community, in the South Tongu district of the Volta region on our way back from a community engagement in Kua, near Agave. This communities does fishing, oyster mining in the Volta lake as main livelihood source. Hyacinth divided across the Volta lake surface According to the residents, the water hyacinth in a decade past does not affect them much because, it move...