MP for Ayensuano Launches “Fix Yourself Project” to Repair Bad Roads in Constituency
With the heart of determination to reduce the increasing loss of lives and property to rains and criminals due to bad road networks in his constituency, the Member of Parliament for Ayensuano Hon Teddy Safori Addi Daniel has launched the ‘Fix Yourself Project” on some key roads.
According to him, calls to the government through the Ministry of Roads and Highways to take steps to repair the seriously deplorable roads have failed; hence his own effort to fix as is it one of the causative factors of accidents and loss of farm produce in the country.
He noted that the terrible nature of the muddy-ridden roads in the farming communities has made it progressively more difficult to drive on the roads.
Hon Teddy made this known during an interview with EXPRESSNEWSGHANA in parliament on developmental issues in the constituency.
He said at a tour in the constituency during the recess together with his constituents, “we have realized the roads are in a very deplorable state and unmotorable, a situation which has caused a lot of inconveniences and even deaths to the good people of Ayensuano. “
“Consequently, and the team decided to fix a few road networks within the constituency. I am by this calling on the President, Minister of Roads, and other Roads agencies responsible for road infrastructure in the country to extend helping hands to Ayensuano Constituency,” he added.
The Akufo Addo government in response to some young Ghanaians asking the government to fix the country’s problems with the hashtag #FIX THE COUNTRY, asked them to rather fix their problems.
This, Hon Teddy, said he is taking up the challenge by what he described as “the incompetent Akufo Addo government” to make the roads somehow accessible to commuters and motorists in the interim.
He said Ayensuano is one of the deprived districts and the road network which is already a bad situation is increasingly getting worse due to heavy rains that erode most parts of the roads.
The MP said the good people of the Ayensuano constituency could not be left to continue to live in such misery and lack of development, stressing that, “Our people deserve the best and an equal share of the national cake.”
Similarly, the MP has also taken steps to repair the Achiansa Bridge which has partly collapsed by storm rains, making it impassable by commuters.
The MP said he support the project with 50 bags of cement, sand, and undisclosed cash to help fix the roads to reduce loss of lives and breakdown of vehicles as well as farmers to cart their farm products to the nearest market.
According to Hon Teddy, the bridge when completed would go a long way in helping the good people of Achiansa and Abobiri within the Ayensuano constituency.
The MP also took the opportunity to inspect the bad state of roads leading to Wawase and other adjoining communities within the constituency.
He said, the tour also gives “me firsthand information on the situation and the needed efforts to be made to get the deplorable state of the roads addressed.”
While lamenting the poor state of roads in the constituency, Hon Teddy noted that the fix yourself project is being supported by community youth and other residents who felt their cries to the government have been in vain and therefore took it upon themselves to fix the roads.
The government has declared the year 2021 as the ‘Years of Roads’ but a closer look at some roads in the country reveals deep inequalities as rural communities particularly farming communities lack motorable roads.
Besides the major roads, some of the communities that have roads are mostly cut off during the rainy season due to the absence of bridges, and the inability of successive governments to speedily connect farming communities to marketing centers.
Years of underinvestment in rural roads and bridges have also left behind a huge deficit for the rural economy and for this reason the rural folks called on the government to reverse the trend.
Hon Teddy said the roads in Ayensuano are a perfect example of neglecting farming communities and the labour they expend.
Fixing the rural roads, he believed would go a long way to improve a lot of peasant farmers as well as improve the entire Agriculture sector and boosts the economy of the country.
He, therefore, appealed for duty-bearers to not only focus on upgrading urban road networks, but they must spread their tentacles to our food-producing communities that go through living hell to cart foodstuffs to market centers.
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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