Kwashie-Bu residents cry over poor roads

Residents and motorists of Kwashie-Bu in the Ga Central Municipality in the Greater Accra Region have asked the authorities to step up efforts to improve roads in the community.

Kwashie-Bu, a suburb of the Anyaa-Sowutuom Constituency, is noted for the many poor infrastructure in the area.

A broken culvert in the town, which put the lives of residents at risk when it was abandoned for three years, is now 80 per cent complete to be fully repaired.

Kwashie-Bu culvert

The Ga Central Municipal Assembly restarted work on the culvert after the Daily Graphic wrote a feature about the situation and the plight of the residents and road users around the same time last year.

The 5.0m X 2.0m single-cell reinforced box culvert and storm drain had put the travelling public in a difficulty as residents explained that vehicles avoided that route.

The completion of the culvert is meant to connect Kwashie-Bu to neighbouring communities such as Sowutuom, Santa Maria and Nsawam.

Visit

A visit to the area showed that massive work had been done at the site.

A driver, Anderson Eminah, who spoke to the Daily Graphic, expressed joy at the accessibility of the road.

“Although the project is not completed, it is far better than the past. However, roads in the area are bad.

The authorities must, therefore, expedite efforts to construct roads in this vicinity,” he said.

He added that there was a lot of traffic on the main Kwashieman-Santa Maria road, making the Kwashie-Bu roads serve as an alternative route for vehicles that wanted to avoid traffic.

In separate interviews, other motorists and residents further appealed to the authorities to improve the dilapidated road network in the area which had over the years impacted their businesses negatively.

Ongoing construction

Allaying the fears of the residents on the construction of roads in the community, the acting Engineer for Urban Roads, Ga Central Municipal Assembly, Mr John Armah, said the construction of roads would begin by next month within the Kwashie-Bu electoral area.

He said a 3.5-km road construction was ongoing for the Chantan electoral area, part of which would benefit the Kwashie-Bu electoral area.

He said residents who had encroached some parts of the road had already been served notice to allow construction to begin.

In February this year, officials of the Ga Central Municipal Assembly inspected ongoing construction works on some roads and drains within the Chantan electoral area.

Mr Armah said the construction works formed part of a 13-km road project being undertaken within the whole municipality at a cost of about GH¢40 million.

Touching on the culvert, he said: “We will complete work on the culvert within three months; we will do some desilting work around the culvert area and then we will be done.”

Highlights

Residents and motorists have expressed their joy over the opening of the Kwashie-Bu road which was not accessible due to an uncompleted storm drain in the area.

The Ga Central Municipal Assembly said it would begin road construction within the Kwashie-Bu electoral area by next month.

According to the assembly, encroachers within the area had already been served notice to vacate the area to allow preparation and construction of the roads to proceed.