Cooperative Transport Chairman appeals for road rehabilitation

Mr Thomas Mensah, Chairman of the Amasaman branch of the Co-operative Transport Union, has appealed to the Department of Feeder Roads to rehabilitate roads serving about 20 communities in the area.

He said the recent rains had made the roads unmotorable and that the drivers were unwilling to ply the area, making the people, mostly farmers, to carry their wares and walk long distances to marketing centres.

Mr Mensah made the appeal when he took the Ghana News Agency around to inspect some of the roads in the area and said if measures were not taken immediately most foodstuffs would be locked up on the farms, to the detriment of farmers, who had gone for loans for the venture.

He mentioned some of affected communities as Abehenease, Kwashiekumah, Obeyeyie, Obuom, Dobro Gonnor, Ashalaja, Ayikai Doblo and Akraman, among others.

In another development, the Chairman of the Pokuase branch of the union, Mr Daniel Boamah Marfo also called on the Feeder Roads Department to re-gravel the 9-kilometre road from Ablekuma to Pokuase, which is also in bad shape.

Source: GNA