Public Agenda (Accra)
23 June 2008
Accra — Miss Lydia Owusu, a UK-trained law graduate, is planning to pilot a Disney-like holiday resort in The Gambia to attract more tourists to the tiny West African country.
Miss Owusu told Public Agenda that her decision to pilot the project in The Gambia is based on frustrations she encountered from Ghanaian tourism authorities and other unseen forces when she tried to implement her brilliant tourism ideas in Ghana since 2000.
Miss Owusu who is also a specialist in tourism branding said her frustrations started in 2001 when she returned from London with the intention of building holiday resort but she initially had land problems. She later got land at Kpong, but a Scandinavian company that was supposed to fund the feasibility study and aspects of the projects lost interest in the project, leaving her midstream.
According to her, she later designed a new concept for the development of the Lake Busomtwi area as a tourist site, but that also ended on the rocks. After the Lake Busomtwi project was frustrated she did not stop there. She tried to initiate another project at Aburi, where a Deputy Minister of Tourism led her to acquire some lands, but before she was aware the very tourism authorities who were supposed to facilitate the implementation of the project backed out. Other projects Miss Owusu had on her development plan were the airport sight development plan and the Accra mall concept, but like the previous projects the airport plan also fell through.
Perhaps, Miss Owusu's crime was that she was the first love of an eminent Ghanaian, who is also recognized across Africa and globally.
She said what she did not realize was that the very people she was discussing her projects with were leaking the information to other interest groups. She later found that she was the victim of a well orchestrated plan by an establishment.
In the coming days Public Agenda will start a series of publications on how Miss Owusu's life came to be under threat, the mysterious disappearance of documents in her London home and a hotel in Ghana ; and most importantly, how her intended marriage to the eminent Ghanaian was shelved. These would be contained in the "Royal X-files."
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