Public expresses concern about frequent road blocks

Ashaiman, June 15, GNA -- The people of Ashaiman have expressed concern at the frequency at which roads are unilaterally blocked to inconvenience the public in the town.

Apart from the main roads and the night market streets, almost all the link roads are blocked at weekends and sometimes even on week days for out-doorings without any public notice.

Mr Anthony Yeboah, a taxi driver on Tuesday called at the GNA to complain that the link road between the Methodist School and the Kaketo Junction was blocked by a benevolent society for a meeting.

He reported that sometimes, workers who are late for work have to engage in verbal wars with organisers of social gatherings who use benches to display "no way" inscriptions to prevent the public from using the roads.

Mr Isaac Kwame Antwi, Tema Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), commenting on the complaints, advised the public to refrain from such practices since they infringe on the rights of others.

He said the NCCE has been educating the public on such issues and expected them to have stopped.

He called on the police "to enforce the Public Order Law which regulates public gathering to check the practice".

Mr Antwi described unauthorised blocking of roads as "dangerous" since this could impede the movement of emergency services like an ambulance or a tender of the Ghana National Fire Service.

He appealed to assembly members to assist in the educational programme and hoped that the Tema Municipal Assembly would provide centres at Ashaiman for such social gatherings.