Fix our roads or we'll protest - Ashaiman drivers tell govt | Citi Newsroom

with the onset of the rains roads in their shyman municipality which for years have been left in very deplorable states have deteriorated even further making life unbearable for motorists and business owners some residents and motorists here say they are compelled to endure the difficult consequences of unbearable traffic congestions and regular costly repairs of their vehicles and these things are affecting their livelihoods the residents pointed to roads such as the jericho to lebanon police junction road the central business district to zainu road and the new town junction to afariwa road are some of the most deplorable roads to the municipality it will be recalled that commercial drivers staged a major protest in 2013 over the deplorable state of rote in hasheman during the protest personnel manning the toll booth on the akratama motorway were prevented from collecting monies some commercial drivers who spoke to city news have thus threatened to stage a similar protest if the authorities fail to fix the roads in a shiner this road is creating more proof and if you are talking about the traffic forget about the traffic because i am even even not like four going there about your brother forget there's suffering so many trafficking this morning i always even every week i'll go to shop you see if the road is good i'll not be going to shop every week we are planning a massive demonstration which i think what we are planning now i think some years back we we did some in a shama mutual what we did there it's a small thing so we are sending the message to the government the president that he should try as much as possible to come to our age otherwise when we start we even plan to do the demonstration so when we comes at least nobody should even talk about it because what we have we have what we are getting here is too much our car every day will be going to shop every day you see when you go to one one trip then you have to go to shop apart from drivers businesses and shop owners are also feeling their fair share of the effects of the deplorable roads in the municipality instead of you to take five minutes to your workplace you can even take one hour and it's wasting that before when you get to the business you'll be late and what you have to do you can't do it a month ago a pregnant woman have is having discouraged because of the root because the port was the devil was able to dump their photos i don't know what happened so they arrived the person to the hospital so they're pregnant women they are suffering and their nursing mothers in fact the rules are very bad it's affecting our businesses here because most of our drivers who apply who work here convey lumbar to new developed areas and the rules are very very bad it is it is having a tour on their tracks they are all breaking down always which is making a transport very expensive for customers who can't even come to buy here they generally should charge about 200 ghana they end up charging 600 grand because of the nature of the rules so we appealed to the road minister to come and take and look at hashem for the meantime otherwise one day the city was busy with explode because of the barrows we have here meanwhile those who lead the private transport operator group in hashem say drivers are very upset over the deplorable state of roads and have thus issued a one-month ultimatum to the government to fix the roads or risk a repeat of experiencing the 2013 famous ashaiman drivers demo the secretary of the ashaiman cooperative transport society quabna cranting and the spokesman for the ashaiman municipal private transport operators coordination council samuel amwa shared their thoughts with city news a lot of drivers are planning to protest against that or the furniture of our rules we are giving the government from this time to the next month that is one month ultimatum if that if the government they fail to do something about it i don't think we the authorities or we the executive can can control the drivers again we don't want the situation whereby those things that used to happen and they will be mentioning a sharma ashama drivers are doing these drivers are doing that we don't want that situation again in a bid to help improve the situation the member of parliament for shaiman ernest henry nogby ordered six strips of laterite to fill potholes in the municipality as an interim measure in speaking to situ news in an interview the mp lamented the gross neglect on the part of the urban roads department and the municipal assembly in relation to the maintenance of roads in a shaman he added that he would welcome any protest by his constituents over the issue rules at every part of hashimas are very bad extremely bad when i posed a question to the minister in parliament somewhere a month or two ago he was telling me that some of the rules have been 92 percent complete 67 percent complete 52 percent complete and as i speak with you not even a a heap of sun on any or side road that he was saying they are 92 percent complete i spoke with the assembly they are adamant so i have to take the challenge upon myself and to use some little funds i have to come and then fill the potholes for for their drivers this particular stretch of road was where i did somewhere in november december i was thinking that the assembly will come and then do the final shaping but they refuse but for now it has gotten to a stage where i need to mobilize my people onto the street to demonstrate and draw the attention of the government that we the people of our chairman we also deserve better

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Published: Thu Sep 16 2021