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Contractor cuts of road access to 13 communities through
neglect
Ho, Jan 9, Ghanadot/GNA - About 13
farming communities in the Akatsi District have been cut off
from market and health centers around them because a
contractor who was to build culverts over River Worwoe has
abandoned the project.
The contract includes repair works on a four-kilometre
feeder road linking the area and was awarded to M-Gallant
Ghana Limited, an Accra based firm, about two-and-half-
years ago and was to be completed in six months.
Mr Thomas Ayisu, Assembly Member for Agomor-Agado Electoral
Area who spoke to the Ghana News Agency in Ho on Wednesday,
painted a gloomy picture of "anguished farmers watching
their crops rot and pregnant women ferried on bicycles to
hospitals" because of the failure of the contractor to
deliver.
Among the 13 communities affected are Nyitawuta, Avenorkpoxe,
Kpete, Gavikope and Xevi whose inhabitants now circumvent
the bridge to get to the Dzodze market 47 kilometres away
instead of Akatsi that is only 19 kilometres away.
Mr Ayisi said the sides of the uncompleted bridge had been
left unfilled rendering the road impassable.
He said young people, desperate to get to the other side of
the road during the raining season, climbed trees and swung
from branch to branch to cross to the other side.
Mr Anthony Abledu, Akatsi District Chief Executive, said the
abandonment of the project was of grave concern to the
assembly and that the assembly had passed a motion to
prevail on the contractor to finish the job.
A source at the Akatsi District Directorate of the Ministry
of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) said the Ghc70, 000 contract
was awarded under a Project handled by the Ministry.
He said the contractor was yet to embank the culvert and
repair the road and that all efforts were being made to get
him back on the job.
GNA
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