The decommissioned Buduburam Refugee Camp, which used to serve as a home for Liberian refugees, has been marked demolition.
The area was decommissioned as a refugee camp by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in June 2010 but has since become a settlement.
Police say the base has become a notorious hideout for hardened criminals, including alleged robbery gangs.
The camp and its immediate environs, according to the Gomoa East District in the Central Region, will be developed to have a senior high school, a residential community and a modern market.
District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Solomon Darko-Quarm, has told the Daily Graphic that the demolition of the camp was in response to a request by the Gomoa Fetteh chiefs over the increasing criminal acts in the Gomoa area, with the camp being turned into an abode for suspected criminals.
“The Buduburam Camp has become an albatross around the neck of the nation as it has become a den for many suspected criminals engaged in many criminal activities across the country,†he told the Daily Graphic.
He indicated that the exercise would be undertaken after the completion of the ongoing tarring of new roads at Buduburam meant to ease the traffic congestion on that stretch of the Accra-Cape Coast highway.
Mr Darko-Quarm also said the demolition would also pave the way to redevelop the area to befit the district’s status as the gateway to the Central Region.