Some Ada residents have been seen on camera breaking into Electrochem Ghana to get their confiscated equipment back.

Based on information obtained, it appears that Electrochem Ghana used state security to seize equipment from the residents.

In a video that CITI FM broadcast, some residents were seen riding motorcycles and storming Electrochem to get their equipment. However, the caption does not match the content of the video.

“Electrochem seized equipment from the locals, so today the people are here picking their items from the company, you can clearly see people whose machines were taken from them, we all came here to pick our machines that is what is happening,” said the narrator who shot the video.


Tensions have increased in the Ada-Songor District due to recent flare-ups between locals and a purported police and military force.

Due to the contested concessions for the salt mine with McDan's Electrochem, the residents have been fighting violently with the police and soldiers.

At the same time, Naana Korleki Korley I, a queen mother of the Terkperbiawe Clan in Ada, has been protesting McDan's capitulation to Ada-Songor Salt.

When she backed Electrochem Ghana Limited, a business magnate owned by Daniel McKorley, sometimes known as McDan, to acquire the Ada Songor Salt Project, she admits she had great expectations.

According to McDan's Electrochem's website, the company has obtained a 41,000-acre concession at Ada Songor to provide local and international markets with 1,000,000 metric tons of salt annually.

According to reports, the state-owned Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) gave McDan's Electrochem an astounding US$30 million for its Ada-Songor Salt project in order to acquire a startling 6% stake in the company. This raises serious concerns about who actually gains from the transaction.