A bad road in Kumasi
GOVERNMENT has taken a firm decision to quickly fix all deplorable road networks in Kumasi—the Ashanti Regional capital.
In view of that, private contractors who have been awarded road contracts in the city but left site have been ordered to return and resume work.
Alhaji Alidu Seidu, the Asokore Mampong Municipal Chief Executive, who made the disclosure, said the Kumasi roads would be fixed soon.
“Latest by next week, all the contractors that government has contracted to work on the poor roads in Kumasi have been told to return to site. This decision was taken during a crunch meeting in Kumasi on Wednesday, which I was present,” Alidu Seidu stated on Kumasi-based Nhyira FM yesterday.
He, therefore, appealed to residents of the city to exercise maximum restraint, assuring them that all the bad roads would be tackled soon.
Virtually, all Kumasi roads had deteriorated by the time the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government assumed the mantle of leadership in January 2017.
The government awarded most of the roads to contractors to fix them but the contractors left site after few months and abandoned the roads.
Alidu Seidu stated that government was aware of the problems that Kumasi residents were facing due to the deplorable roads.
“The NPP government is a listening government, for which reason it has decided to get the roads fixed completely to help ease movement in the city,” he added.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi