Road contractors asked to check dust pollution

Road contractors have been asked to constantly water roads they are working on to prevent dust pollution.

To this end, agencies of the Ministry of Roads and Highways which supervise such projects have been asked to enforce this demand and factor the additional cost of water-dressing of the roads in the dry season.

The call came from the Ho Municipal Network of the Governance Issues Forum (GIF-Net) at a training workshop on public deliberation and dialogue, organized by the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) in Ho.

The Network cited a number of on-going road projects in the Ho Municipality such as the road from the traffic light near the High Court to the Sports Stadium junction, where dust pollution has become unbearable for households along that road.

Mr. Henry Ametefee, Volta Regional Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) last Saturday expressed a similar concern at a burial service in Ho.

He said the burial service was shifted from Afife in the Akatsi District to Ho because of serious dust pollution caused by the construction of the Afife/Denu stretch of the Accra/Aflao highway.

“There is disaster in my house, I cannot host mourners and well- wishers in that environment. The authorities concerned should do something about this,” he said.

Source: GNA