Ashaiman water crisis deepens

Members of the Tema-Ashaiman Development Journalists’ Association (TEDJA) have paid a working visit to the Ashaiman-Adjei Kojo road construction site to follow up on the extent of repair works carried out on Ghana Water Company (GWC) pipelines destroyed by the construction works.

Most areas in the Ashaiman municipality for over a month now have not had good drinking water following the road construction works being undertaken by Engineers and Planners (E and P) at the Ashaiman-Adjei Kojo under Bridge.

The association’s president, Vincent Kubi, who is the Tema Regional Correspondent for Daily Guide, said the move was to register their disquiet about the slow response by GWC in rectifying the water situation in the area.

“We are residents of Ashaiman and we and our people need water for our domestic and clinical duties. We can’t be served with water bills when our taps have not given us a drop of water since July,” Mr Kubi said.

Considering the rate at which Ghanaians are contracting cholera, and with the growing statistics in the Tema metropolis, he said GWC had no excuse to delay in relocating the burst pipelines in order to enable residents of Ashaiman get clean water to drink and maintain good personal hygiene.

“The Urban Roads and GWC cannot flee from blame for they knew very well that E and P was mobilising to site. The contractor could not know that there are pipelines running here or there so we expected the Urban Roads and GWC to have relocated the pipelines even before the construction works would start,” the AJA president argued.

He said the journalist and residents of Ashaiman have been assured by a manager of GWC at the site that in two days time, they would restore all the broken pipelines for regular water supply to start, “and we are going to be monitoring.”