Member of Parliament for Anyaa Sowutuom constituency, Dr. Dickson Adomako Kissi has labeled his residents as ungrateful for complaining about the appalling quality of roads in the region.
He stated his people do not pay property tax but keep urging authorities to perform developmental initiatives inside the region.
"I will hate to say that we have a problem of not appreciating even where we have arrived, and the reason why I say that is because a lot has occurred, and I would hate to say that we have a problem of not appreciating even where we have reached. Nobody comes to compliment me while I'm driving on the road. But when they are demanding, they start abusing me, which is great. I could have put that money on other routes, but I chose to use it to help them instead.
"We are not the only site in the whole of the constituency; Agape and Sowutuom, as well as Lomnava and others, are located there as well. Dr. Adomako Kissi said that "and then in totality, inhabitants of Antie Aku who are protesting are not even paying to the property tax so that we can utilize part of that to fix their roads."
Dr. Adomako Kissi made these words in an interview in Accra while replying to a question concerning concerns by his people who are seeking asphalt on the Antie-Aku junction to Municipal assembly office roads.
He also explained that the road had not been asphalted because there were buildings on the waterway that needed to be demolished to make room for the construction of drainage from Dela junction to the Deserter hospital. He said this was because the buildings needed to be demolished to pave the way for the construction of drainage.
A resident, Mr. Charles Sewordor remarked, the poor aspect of the road is making living circumstances more difficult for them.
He said that every time they drove on the road, they were constantly terrified because they feared becoming ill as a result of breathing in the dust.
Mr. Sewordor said that people had raised the attention of their Member of Parliament and the Municipal Chief Executive to the bad status of the road but nothing had been done to fix it.
In his words, "We have written countless letters to the assembly and held several meetings with the authorities but we are not getting results and that is why we are appealing to the central government." "We have held several meetings with the authorities and have held several meetings with the assembly but we are not getting results."
According to him, the inaccessibility of the roadways has rendered the commercial and business activity un the impacted districts completely ineffective.
One driver, who identified himself as Mr. Gordon Annor, said that he makes regular trips to mechanics in order to have his car repaired due to the poor condition of the road network. He pleaded with the appropriate authorities to come to their aid as quickly as possible.
Along with Annor, another concerned resident named Madam Bernice Anankwa stated that pregnant and nursing mothers who use the road to get to the Deserter hospital in the community, which boasts of top-class medical doctors, nurses, and other health workers, are however hit with health issues as a result of the dusty nature of the road. Annor was the first concerned resident to make this statement.
She claims that a number of lives have been lost and that others have had miscarriages as a direct result of the many potholes and the inadequate road network.
It is hard to convey severely sick patients to the local community hospital in time for treatment due to the poor quality of the route, which is dusty and filled with potholes of terrifying magnitude. "Alas, the bad road network damaged their pregnancies," Madam Bernice Anankwa bemoaned. "Some ladies suffer miscarriage which was averted but alas, it affected their pregnancies."
According to Madam Aku Seshie, the region is inaccessible by motor vehicle due to the terrible condition of their road network and the inadequate drainage system.
She stated that because of the poor condition of the road, commercial cars seldom visit the town, which means that inhabitants must mostly go on foot in order to get about.
After initially offering to talk, Mr. Mohammed Bashiru Kamara, the Municipal Chief Executive for Ga Central Assembly, did not reply to many calls that were made over to his phone line.
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