2023 Budget: Govt must do more to Tackle Feeder Roads- MP for Wassa East
The Member of Parliament for Wassa East Constituency in the Western Region, Hon Isaac Adjei Mensah has charged the government to dedicate more funds to the Feeder Roads Department to tackle roads in farming communities.
According to him, the country’s economic hub is in the farming communities but the roads leading to those communities and farms are in bad condition, hence the need for the government to dedicate more funds in the 2023 budget to address the challenges in that sector.
Hon Adjei Mensah made this while contributing to the budget debate in parliament last Thursday, December 1, 2022.
He told EXPRESSNEWSGHANA after the debate that poor maintenance of feeder roads in the country is affecting the road network in the country and the government must use the 2023 budget and allocate more funds to the sector.
“I think the government must do more than pay lip service” to the road maintenance in this country, we have poor road maintenance culture and I think, this year, the government should tackle that aspect of the economy.
“A regular and timely reshaping and grading pave the roads and make them more useful, especially the cocoa roads where our food are been produced,” Hon Adjei Mensah stated.
In his view, reshaping and upgrading the roads would support economic development in rural areas by removing physical constraints in feeder road infrastructure, reducing rural transport costs of goods and passengers, and supporting farm production and marketing.
He added that over the last six years the government had paid lip services to the sector, hence the need for a periodic rehabilitation and periodic maintenance program to be implemented.
The Wassa East MP believed a sustainable maintenance management system as well as an institutional strengthening and support program for feeder road planning, design, supervision, and quality upgrading of trunk and cocoa roads would boost rural Agricultural.
“I hope that the government would for once do more than pay lip service to the road sector and urged that, more budgetary allocation be made to the Feeder Roads department,” the MP added.
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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