Former KMA boss lauds Kufuor's administration

Kumasi, July 24, GNA - Nana Akwasi Agyeman, former Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), has lauded the New Patriotic Party government for what he said was its impressive performance. "I have worked with various governments since Ghana's independence but I must say that the present administration deserves a lot of credit for its achievements within the relatively short period in office."

Nana Akwasi Agyeman, therefore, called on the people to rally solidly behind the government and give it every necessary support. He said these when accepting an invitation to serve as patron of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Garages (GNAG) in Kumasi on Thursday.

The former KMA Chief Executive noted that the government would need sometime to fix the dislocation of the national economy and asked the people to be patient with it.

He told the mechanics to be more alert and resist any attempt by misguided politicians to use them to foment trouble, cause confusion and disturb the peace in the Region.

Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, Ashanti Regional Minister, earlier had announced to the mechanics that three kilometres of roads running through the Suame Light Industrial Area were to be tarred. He said the work would start immediately and was expected to be completed before the end of the year.

Mr Boafo expressed concern about the situation where some mechanics undertook the repair of broken down vehicles right in the middle of the road and said the practice was unacceptable in view of the damage to the asphalted roads by spilled oil and the potential to cause accidents.

He told them to insist that broken down vehicles be towed to the workshops before they accepted to repair them.

Mr Boafo said to help check the indiscriminate parking of articulated trucks on road sides in the Kumasi Metropolis, a site had been prepared at Breman, where all such vehicles were expected to be parked.

Mr John Yaw Damte, Regional Chairman of the Association, said they were grateful to the government for the decision to tar the roads and appealed to it to assist the mechanics to go beyond the primitive way of engineering to turn the area into a first class motor vehicle industry to drive the economy.