A committee will be set up by early next week to determine compensation for people whose businesses and properties were affected by the demolition of facilities at La Pleasure Beach in Accra.
The committee will include representatives of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA), traditional authorities, management of the affected beaches and the area’s Member of Parliament, Naa Odoley Sowah.
Mrs Sowah, who is also Deputy Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, announced the plans when she appeared before Parliament’s Committee on Local Government and Decentralisation on Tuesday, 6 October 2026.
LaDMA officials were appearing before the committee over the demolition of beach facilities and associated flood mitigation exercises.
Mrs Sowah said information about those displaced by the exercise had already been collected. However, she said the form and amount of compensation had not yet been agreed.
“The matter will be discussed by the committee before a decision will be reached,” she told the committee.
She added: “We have gotten their data and the committee is going to look at what we are going to give to them as compensation. So those affected will be compensated and the decision for the type of compensation has not been finalised but as the MP I am following up deeply on that to ensure that everybody gets what they are supposed to get.”
The committee will assess the circumstances of people who may need to move elsewhere, as well as those whose claims may require financial compensation, Mrs Sowah said.
She also stressed that the work at La Pleasure Beach was distinct from the demolition at Laboma Beach.
“Laboma Beach demolishing is a different issue but subsequently Laboma concerns will come up,” she said, indicating that the Laboma matter would be addressed through a separate process.
The Chief Executive of LaDMA, Mr Alfredos Nii Anyetei, told the committee that the Laboma demolition had been carried out as part of efforts to tackle flooding and restore an ecological site.
He said LaDMA had not been consulted before the exercise. The assembly was instead shown the location where the demolition would take place during a meeting, he said.
Mr Anyetei also told the committee that he was unaware that the Member of Parliament had been specifically informed about the operation.