Mpohor MP tours ongoing road project sites

Member of Parliament for Mpohor Constituency in the Western Region, Mr. Alex Agyekum has paid a first working visit to the Engineers, Foreman and the field workers on the Apowa - Mpohor-Bemso road.

The 15.5km Bitumen Surface stretch is being funded by the Government of Ghana (G.o.G) and executed by M.S. J.P.P. construction and services Ltd.

Mr. Alex Agyekum, who is also the Chairman of the Select Committee on Youth, Sports and Culture in Ghana's Parliament hinted that the Eshiem-Manso-Benso Bitumen surfacing will soon see a positive approval from the Minister by next month.

He said he is seriously lobbying for it to be awarded on contract and from the assurance he has received from the sector Minister he is is confident that the deplorable road will be rehabilitated this year.

Mr. Agyekum praised the Minister, Hon. Amoako Atta and the Feeder Roads Manager for agreeing to increase the scope of work on the 51.5km Apowa-Mpohor-Benso road to be done by increasing the axle load capacity due to future heavy duty vehicles that will ply the road.

On his part, the District Chief Executive of the Mpohor District, Hon. Ignatius Asaah Mensah commended the President who cut sod together with the MP and himself late last year for the commencement of work and pledged the Assembly's support for early completion of it.

Hundreds of drivers who ply the road and some residents express delight to the Member of Parliament, Honourable Alex Agyekum and the District Chief Executive Ignatius Asaah Mensah for their efforts in seeing this road back to life

The Member of Parliament was accompanied by the District Chief Executive and some Constituency Executives led by the Chairman Mr Appiah and the first Vice Chairman Mr Razak.

In a related news the Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Research at the National Sports Authority, Mr Kwame Baah has apologized to Mr. Alex Agyekum in his recent statement that contradicted the MP's speech at Mpohor during the 2019 Cross Country event that was hosted at Mpohor for the first time..

In a letter to the Member of Parliament he attributed the misunderstanding to some facts he was not privileged to at the time he went to the media and apologised for the unfortunate incident.

The MP accepted the apology and commended Mr Kwame Baah for showing remorse in his apology letter and promised to work with him to promote Sports in the Mpohor constituency but advised him not to allow himself to be used by certain individuals seeking political agenda and who will do everything possible to discredit all the developments in the constituency.