A grader machine has made a surprise appearance on the deplorable Koforidua- Two Streams to Trom road in the Eastern Regional Capital Wednesday morning following a threat by residents to embark on a massive demonstration.
The grader appeared to reshape the road shortly after a dawn announcement by NPP branded Vehicle that, the NPP Parliamentary Candidate for New Juaben South Michael Okyere Baafi, has hired a grader to work on the road for the meantime as the Assembly workaround effort to ensure that a new contracted handed over the project mobilizes to start work on the road.
The Two Streams to Trom road has become virtually unmotorable after recent rains. Many broken down vehicles could be counted on the road every day.
Drivers and commuters have been enduring excruciating stress traveling on the road daily to work but say are fed up hence planned to demonstrate.
Despite several letters written by the Assembly member for Two Streams Electoral Area, Citizen Tetteh, to the New Juaben South Municipal Assembly and appropriate authorities, the abandoned road continued deteriorating unattended to.
In one of the latest letters written by the Assembly Member state that “I have some serious challenges in my Electoral Area making life very uncomfortable for me and my electorates, particularly, pregnant women, commercial drivers, and market women. Drivers now charge exorbitant fares at night due to the poor nature of our roads. A situation my residents are unhappy about.”
“The state of the road from Two Streams junction through the forecourt of the Regional Medical Store is making residents gives me sleepless nights”.
Another problem is that the bridge at the second drugstore has developed very deep gullies which make vehicles fall into it especially when it rains and at night. I’m having sleepless nights over this too. Again recently, work started on some community roads within the Electoral Area, but for over two months now, work has stopped, and pits drugged by the contractor are gathering water serving as a breeding ground for mosquitoes terrorizing residents. Some residents are unable to have access to park their cars in their homes; Zoomloin waste trucks find it difficult to collect waste, because of no access due to abandoned construction works.”
The petition added “I have written to the Assembly and made several follow-ups so that at least a temporal solution is provided to calm agitated residents, yet all to no avail. As a last hope, residents are charged to embark on a demonstration. I have met various stakeholders in the community on their intended demonstration, but all proved fertile.”
The petition concluded “I am compelled to bring this to your kind attention after a meeting with residents last night to calm them did not work out. Please come to my rescue. I’m troubled with sleepless nights over these many fundamental but long-standing issues in my Electoral Area. If my Electorates defy my intervention and embark on their intended demonstration, as leader of the community, I may have no other option than to join them, though against my wish.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
