Local authorities and neglect of obligations - A taxpayer’s fury

A news item among others forwarded to me last week by a friend was just right on the spot. Per the news, a private legal practitioner, in her individual right, has gone to court praying it to compel the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly (LEKMA) to construct a section of a road leading to her house at Teshie-Nungua, a suburb of Accra.

Agbadza dance

According to the complainant, the road leading to her house was so bad that each time she used it, ‘she had to dance agbadza’.

She contended that she was a taxpayer who paid her property rate annually so LEKMA should also perform its obligation by constructing the roads.

Incidentally, when a municipal chief executive chose to reside within that same community, he ensured that the road leading to his house was reconstructed.

The complainant’s case is exactly to the point.

Bad community roads serving residential areas get seriously eroded on both sides, manholes and potholes appear on the r