Adumassa complains about neglect

Suhum, April 1, GNA - The people of Adumassa, a farming community in the Suhum Kraboa/Coalter District have complained about the neglect of the community by the District Assembly and Member of Parliament for Suhum.

Adumassa is a cocoa growing community with population of about 600 people.

According to the Odikro of the village, Baffour Addo Ayisi who spoke to Ghana News Agency at a communal labour, the people of Adumassa lack several amenities including school, potable water, road and clinic. He said the only road linking Adumassa through Tetteh Nkwanta to Suhum was constructed in 1992 by one Thorodoh Erich Hafter a German and his wife, Rose when they visited the village and since then, no rehabilitation work has been done on the road.

Baafour Ayisi said because of the bad nature of the road, for the past three years, no vehicle has plied the road.

He said sick persons and women in labour with complications in the community who could not walk, had to be carried in wheel barrows to a nearby village at Ayitey before boarding vehicle to the hospital at Suhum.

Baffour Ayisi said, sometimes, some of the patients die on the way to the hospital and that foodstuffs cultivate last year were left to rot on the farms because the middle women who came to the village to buy the foodstuffs took advantage of the road to cheat the farmers.

He said due to lack of school in the village, the children have to walk a distance of three kilometers from Adumassa to Amenhyia to attend school and that some of the children were often bitten by snakes on the way.

Baffour Ayisi therefore appealed to the department of feeder road, the District Assembly and the Member of Parliament for Suhum Constituency, Hon. Fred Opare Ansah to come to their aid .