The chiefs and people of Larteh Kubease Akuapem in the Akuapem-North District of the Eastern Region have expressed their dismay at the appalling state of the community's road network, which leads to and within the community. Their letter from July 7, 2023, comes from the Eastern Region.
The streets are seriously decayed making it hard for occupants to get to essential social conveniences, particularly during stormy seasons. Additionally, the roads not only deny them access to essential amenities but also pose a threat to their lives and properties.
The young people of the area are in this manner taking steps to prepare and leave on a showing against the public authority to drum home their interest in the event that nothing was finished to resolve the issue.
If the roads in the Benkum Division of the Akuapem traditional Area were not fixed, they also said they would not participate in the elections in 2024. According to Osaberimah Kwame Asah Tawiah, the Twafohene of Larteh Kubease, who also serves as the Kyidomhene of Akuapem Adweso, they have realized that previous administrations have not paid sufficient attention to the appalling condition of the major economic roads in the Larteh district.
He said that the situation made it hard for the people who live in the community along the road, most of whom are farmers, to get their farm produce to the markets.
"The street is terrible, it's not doing so well and this is lining us thus in the event that you're making a trip late from Accra to Larteh and you're without a vehicle, you will not get a vehicle to Larteh in light of the fact that the drivers close right on time because of the circumstance, by eight or nine, the entire region hushes up," she said.
Interesting to the public authority to intercede, Osaberimah Kwame Asah Tawiah said, "we're interesting to government to develop the street for us… we've spoken about this severally, with this administration as well as past states also."
She was concerned that the town had been disregarded as far as infrastructural advancement to aid the transportation of staples from the area to the encompassing networks and More prominent Accra.
Osaberima Nana Asiedu Okoo III, Lartehene and Benkumhene additionally communicated lament at the circumstance.
The chief stated, "The road from the Larteh junction to Larteh is in very bad shape. The condition is extremely poor from the Larteh junction to Larteh and from Larteh to Ayikuma. We would uphold an overseeing bunch; we would uphold anyone who is ready to help us in guaranteeing that our streets are great", he said.
A driver, Kofi Nyarko, has utilized the street over the beyond 26 years heading to and from Koforidua. He depicted the circumstance as 'extremely awful' with a few requests to have the street fixed failing to be noticed.
"It is exceptionally terrible; We have voiced our displeasure numerous times, but there is nothing more we can do. Most drivers don't want to go to Larteh because of the bad road. "My "raising bar" broke the other day because of this," he said bitterly, adding that they've had to buy spare parts multiple times.
As per him, the street hasn't seen any recovery since its development quite a few years prior and spoke to the public authority to mediate by giving pressing consideration to get the issue tended to.
Wilhelmina Asiedua, a sixty-year-old woman who has lived in Larteh all of her life, lamented the circumstance and expressed her displeasure.
"Individuals of Larteh need to let Nana Akufo-Addo know that we love his administration yet we get no improvement locally… our street is exceptionally awful," the
older lady pursued.
She went on to say that transporting patients who had been referred to major health facilities was a difficult situation that made the patient's condition even worse.
The assurances of the Eastern Regional Minister In response to the people's pleas, the Eastern Regional Minister Seth Kwame Acheampong acknowledged that the road was in terrible condition but stated that the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) had already conducted an assessment in anticipation of the sector ministry's award of a contract for work to begin.
Acheampong communicated good faith that chips away at the street would begin before the year's over.
“Indeed the Larteh junction, Larteh road down to Ayikuma is a major economic road for our region and ever since I’ve been here I’ve been pursuing it and I know how dearly it is to the evergreen...and we have been working closely with the Ghana Highway Authority who is the owner of the corridor, this is a major trunk road and so it falls under the Ghana Highway Authority so we got the highway authority regional director to come over and assess it for us and
He said that "the challenges the administration went through in respect of managing our economy" were to blame for the delay, and he said that most earmarked projects had been affected.
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