Mechanics and garage owners rehabilitate road

Mechanics and garage owners at Koforidua Magazine, the industrial estate of the Koforidua Municipality for fitting mechanics, closed down their workshops on Wednesday for half of the day to participate in a communal labour.

This was to enable them to rehabilitate the four-kilometer Koforidua Ada/Magazine road, the main road to the industrial estate. Speaking to the GNA Mr. David Abgenyega, the Chairman of Koforidua Cooperative Artisans’ Society, said since the road was graveled last year; the New Juaben Municipal Assembly had left it to deteriorate over the past three months.

He said efforts to bring the Department of Urban Roads and the Municipal Assembly to assist the community to rehabilitate the road had been futile because they claimed they did not have funding for it.

Mr. Abgenyega said the workers and residents of the area over the years had paid their taxes diligently to the Municipal Assembly and the Ghana Revenue Authority but that had not reflected in their lives. He appealed to the Municipal Assembly to tar the road because their customers were abandoning them and their businesses were collapsing.

The Assemblyman for the area, Mr. Richard Okyere, said taxes paid by the artisans were huge so they deserved to have good roads. Mr. Okyere expressed his appreciation to Love Enterprise, a mining company in the area, for supporting the communal labour with trips of sand.

Mr. Narh Opata, a mechanic at magazine said due to the nature of the road, many people who used to rehabilitate their vehicles at magazine had stopped coming to the area because they feared the road would worsen the conditions of their vehicles.

Mr. Arron Antwi a taxi driver who plies the road said for the past two to three months, he had never entered the magazine and would only go to the area after the rehabilitation of the road.