Rehabilitate Bia roads - MP

Page 14, November 24, 2007

Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah
THE Member of Parliament (MP) for Bia, Mr Michael Coffie Boampong, has appealed to the Ministry of Transportation for the rehabilitation of roads in the area to facilitate the evacuation of cash and food crops to their marketing centres.
He said the road from Alluokrom through Debiso to Yawmatwa had turned into what he described as “cattle road”.
The MP said it took one about two hours to travel on the 20-kilometre stretch of road from Essam to Oseikojokrom.
He said the Debiso-Asempaneye road was also in very bad state and drivers found it difficult to ply the route.
“I appeal to the Ministry of Transportation to impress on the Ghana Highways Authority (GHA) and the Department of Feeder Roads to immediately go to the aid of the people by rehabilitating the roads in the area”.
He wondered how cocoa produced in the area could be evacuated to the main cocoa depots this season as articulated trucks could not use the roads.
The MP told the Daily Graphic that he used the period of Parliament’s recess to tour the various communities in the constituency to educate the people on the passage of the Domestic Violence and Persons With Disability bills into law.
He stressed the importance of education and urged parents to invest in the future of their children by educating them to the highest level practicable.
Mr Boampong said during the tour farmers in the area expressed their dissatisfaction about the inadequate supply of fungicides and insecticides for the mass spraying exercise.