District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kpone-Katamanso in the Greater Accra Region, Mr Solomon Tettey Appiah, has made it clear that it is not the mandate of district assemblies to construct roads in their areas.
According to him, what was paramount to the Kpone-Katamanso Assembly was how it can manage the sanitation in district and not the fixing of roads, stressing that “when it comes to roads it is the duty of Department of Urban Roads.”
“We’re now serious about the sanitation problem because the President is angry, and moreover, our core function as an assembly is not to fix deplorable roads,” he said.
The DCE was responding to residents of ‘New York’, ‘Washington’ and Atadeka all in the Kpone-Katamanso district who are up in arms against the assembly for poor road networks.
Addressing a press conference recently, the residents lamented that their roads have been in bad state for years.
According to them, the nature of the road network in the district has been a tool for all kinds of crimes including armed robbery.
“We are therefore appealing to President Akufo-Addo to fix the roads for us. We are suffering because of the bad nature of the roads,” they appealed.
Chairman of the New York Taxi Drivers Union, Agya Adu, who expressed displeasure about the poor state of the roads, said they were preparing to stage a massive demonstration against the bad nature of the roads.
An Assembly member for the area, Mutawakilo Bashiru, told the journalists that several appeals to the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration had fallen on deaf ears.
Story: From Danso Abiam, ATV, Tema
