Volta Chiefs frustrated over Adomi closure

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Joe Turkey 11 years ago

The NDC started this project because they plan to open the bridge on the eve of the 2016 elections. Not that it will make any difference to the party's vaults in the Volta region because Voltarians behave like sheep. Listen t ...
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The NDC started this project because they plan to open the bridge on the eve of the 2016 elections. Not that it will make any difference to the party's vaults in the Volta region because Voltarians behave like sheep. Listen to the Regional Minister: government is mobilizing monies to get the contractors back to the road. Whoever starts a capital project without knowing where the money is going to come from.
ELINAM 11 years ago

Always a day late and a cedi short. Always on the run to plug one thing to seal the order.
Always late.
But never failed and got short to give free automobiles to 300 undeserving MPs.
That day will come when that young ma ...
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Always a day late and a cedi short. Always on the run to plug one thing to seal the order.
Always late.
But never failed and got short to give free automobiles to 300 undeserving MPs.
That day will come when that young man will line them up, and darkness shall upon the nation, and there the masses will sing a song of freedom.
DAN 11 years ago

IS THE RIVER BOTTOMLESS? TOO SWIFT?? TOO WIDE?? STORYS ON THE NET IMPLY THAT CHINA IS ACTUALLY THINKING OF BUILD A BRIDGE OR TUNNEL BETWEEN CHINA/RUSSIAN & USA(ALASKA) OVER THE BERING STRAITS!!!!! IF CHINA CAN BUILD 50 MILE ...
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IS THE RIVER BOTTOMLESS? TOO SWIFT?? TOO WIDE?? STORYS ON THE NET IMPLY THAT CHINA IS ACTUALLY THINKING OF BUILD A BRIDGE OR TUNNEL BETWEEN CHINA/RUSSIAN & USA(ALASKA) OVER THE BERING STRAITS!!!!! IF CHINA CAN BUILD 50 MILE BRIDGE/TUNNEL...GHANA CAN'T FIND A NARROW SPOT IN RIVER AND BUILD A CONCRETE AND STEEL BRIDGE????
Owura Ntim 11 years ago

NDC knows we will vote for them no matter what they to our infrastructures in the Volta region. They know our own JJ, Brig. Kattah, the Tsikatas, our beloved Awornor all contributed to the formation of NDC. NDC is ours and we ...
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NDC knows we will vote for them no matter what they to our infrastructures in the Volta region. They know our own JJ, Brig. Kattah, the Tsikatas, our beloved Awornor all contributed to the formation of NDC. NDC is ours and we are NDC. I am afraid our party is taking us for granted. Mill tried a bit for us but most of the completed development projects were undertaken by NPP. WHY IS OUR PARTY TAKING US FOR GRANTED.
Jones 11 years ago

Saloon cars and other light vehicles should be directed to drive over the Akuse dam

Saloon cars and other light vehicles should be directed to drive over the Akuse dam
Aku Ho!! 11 years ago

This government is taking we the voltarians for granted but we will show them where power lies in 2016, how can you close are major link without making available alternate routes, this is common sense.

This government is taking we the voltarians for granted but we will show them where power lies in 2016, how can you close are major link without making available alternate routes, this is common sense.
Kumaga 11 years ago

You get it Aku,NDC hasten us for grnated.Now is the time try NNP.

You get it Aku,NDC hasten us for grnated.Now is the time try NNP.
Koohia 11 years ago

Why do we have to blame central government for all mishaps in this country? Fair enough, at the end of the day the onus falls on them but this project must be under the remit of the Highways Authority.
It is this authority w ...
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Why do we have to blame central government for all mishaps in this country? Fair enough, at the end of the day the onus falls on them but this project must be under the remit of the Highways Authority.
It is this authority who has to undertake this maintenance and their management had to plan to ease the travelling problems to the minimum. And to them providing the ferry was the best and only way. That is how good that management is.
Let think of the good of Ghana, use all our resources efficiently and we will see development for the people instead creating a crony of rich individuals.
Kwesi, Cape Coast 11 years ago

I totally agree with Togbe. All infrastructure done by the CPP has been allowed to collapse. We wouldn't have arrived at this stage if we had planned well after the overthrow of the CPP. What a shape.

I totally agree with Togbe. All infrastructure done by the CPP has been allowed to collapse. We wouldn't have arrived at this stage if we had planned well after the overthrow of the CPP. What a shape.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

Shut up trokosi and continue to vote for useless Ndc hahahahahahahaaaaaa.

Shut up trokosi and continue to vote for useless Ndc hahahahahahahaaaaaa.

Envious region 11 years ago

always complaining, these Volta chiefs, this Afedeman. They are never satisfied but Mahama does not see that. Esatern Region and Ashantis have suffered over the years--Kumasi Road, asamankese Road, Kwahu Roads, Aburi-Nsawam R ...
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always complaining, these Volta chiefs, this Afedeman. They are never satisfied but Mahama does not see that. Esatern Region and Ashantis have suffered over the years--Kumasi Road, asamankese Road, Kwahu Roads, Aburi-Nsawam Road, Oda Rod, Koforidua Bunso Road. Dunkwa kumasi Road etc. Has Asanteman Chiefs ever said anything? How many tomes has Asante Region house of chiefs issued such statement. Volta region--the unrepentant inward-looking tribalists
Sablah 11 years ago

Please erect a Berlin wall around the whole Volta Region to prevent these primitive Togolese who claimed they are part of us from coming to us again

Please erect a Berlin wall around the whole Volta Region to prevent these primitive Togolese who claimed they are part of us from coming to us again
Futurama 11 years ago

Fools. Common sense should have guided this useless NDC government to perfect the alternative routes to the Volta region before the closure of the bridge. Had the authorities use their brains properly they would have run the ...
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Fools. Common sense should have guided this useless NDC government to perfect the alternative routes to the Volta region before the closure of the bridge. Had the authorities use their brains properly they would have run the ferry for sometime to address the teething problems before the closure of the bridge. After all, who cares? It is the Volta Region;treat them as idiots and they will still vote enblock for the NDC. Serves them right.
Agbevivina 11 years ago

Regional Minister is not serious. She doesn't know what she is talking about.If funds are now being mobilized then we are in a big trouble. What about the promise the road minister gave sometime ago. The chiefs too since the ...
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Regional Minister is not serious. She doesn't know what she is talking about.If funds are now being mobilized then we are in a big trouble. What about the promise the road minister gave sometime ago. The chiefs too since the bridge was closed, I'm sure this is the first time the house is meeeting. This shows how serious they are. Ayikoooo to all of them.
Liars! 11 years ago

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! You are either stranger in Ghana or you come from the Volta region! Your government has been making promises upon promises since 2012. And the chief culprit is his excellency, the president himself. Ov ...
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Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! You are either stranger in Ghana or you come from the Volta region! Your government has been making promises upon promises since 2012. And the chief culprit is his excellency, the president himself. Over a million jobs were promised the youth of mother Ghana by your propagandist government? How many of such jobs have been created? Continue to vote like a flock of sheep towing a line. Very soon, your region will become the biggest forest in Africa! Liars!!
Nene 11 years ago

We tend to politicize everything such that even Government officials/politicians cannot get it right. The issue raised by Togbe is not about Government, and the ruling one for that matter. We have a paid institution in charge ...
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We tend to politicize everything such that even Government officials/politicians cannot get it right. The issue raised by Togbe is not about Government, and the ruling one for that matter. We have a paid institution in charge of roads in this Country and, they should be answering. The least we expect is a response from the sector Minister after checking with his planners why this serious lapse. The Volta Regional Minister jumping in and lying to cover up or give hope is futile. We are tired of all this ignorance. Technocrats and bureaucrats often hide behind politicians to cover up their inefficiencies. If things are working well, road construction; school building; hospitals etc; should have nothing to do with Government for which they would be taking credit. Allow our institutions to work and hold them accountable for failures.
Kwame 11 years ago

What has become of the eastern corridor road or it's been suspended for another election time. Voltarians wise up and let's tech NDC a lesson.

What has become of the eastern corridor road or it's been suspended for another election time. Voltarians wise up and let's tech NDC a lesson.
Liars! 11 years ago

Why are you complaining? Is it because now it affects you directly? You have been insulting people for complaining in much the same way as you are doing now. What has changed this time around? If you strongly feel your roads ...
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Why are you complaining? Is it because now it affects you directly? You have been insulting people for complaining in much the same way as you are doing now. What has changed this time around? If you strongly feel your roads are in bad shape, I wish to invite you to take a trip from Tarkwa to Kumasi through Dunkwa; Suhum to Swedru through Asamankese, to mention but a few. "Wo to adu b?ne a ebi ka woano". Have fun. This is the Ghana we have all created out of our own hypocrisy and sycophancy.
Fred 11 years ago

Mahama please we want you at Hohoe to come and see the deplorable state of our roads.We will advise you to come with Saloon car not Helicopter or 4x4.

Mahama please we want you at Hohoe to come and see the deplorable state of our roads.We will advise you to come with Saloon car not Helicopter or 4x4.
kobla 11 years ago

the money used to buy the ferry could have been used to construct a simple bridge over the river.

the money used to buy the ferry could have been used to construct a simple bridge over the river.

Nunkaawa 11 years ago

This is yet one of the lies perpetrated on the Chiefs of the Great Volta Region.

This is yet one of the lies perpetrated on the Chiefs of the Great Volta Region.
Charles Agbenu 11 years ago

Kudos VR chiefs. Damn it ER chiefs Volta Region has several ethnic clans and tribes but I doff my hat to them. When it comes to regional politics and critical regional developments they have the capacity to suppress their emo ...
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Kudos VR chiefs. Damn it ER chiefs Volta Region has several ethnic clans and tribes but I doff my hat to them. When it comes to regional politics and critical regional developments they have the capacity to suppress their emotions and petty differences and merge to take concerted actions to put incumbent governments on their feet.

They identify and act positively on Regional interests appropriately.

So VR House of Chiefs put pressure on Kufuor’s administration to build Keta sea Defence Wall, Tema -Sogakope- Aflao Rd, Eastern Corridor etc. They did it again yesterday in a grand style.

Yesterday VR House of Chiefs led by indefatigable Togbe Afede expressed frustration over inadequacies associated with alternative routes outlined between Accra and the region, following the closure of the Adomi Bridge at Atimpoku for repair works.

They consequently called on the Mahama administration to fix without delay the Senchi -Akuse and Sogakope-Adidome-Ho Roads. Kudos VR house of Chiefs.

In contrast, ER House of Chiefs and their opinion leaders are insensitive to the needs of their people.

They are too docile, timid and damnably timid. They look on and several important roads, whose traffic levels are far more than VR roads deteriorate, deteriorate and deteriorate.

How can ER House of chiefs just look on and Nsawam –Suhum, Suhum-Asamankese, Nsawam-Asamankese-Kade-New-Abirem-Oda, Nsawam –Aburi, K’dua-Bunso, Odumase-Oterkpolu-Asesewa, Nkawkaw-Atibie-Afram Plains, Anyinam-Kwabeng -Abomosu etc, etc become death traps.

Even Tettey Quarshie Hospital at Mampong is deteriorating with leaking roofs, non-functioning lifts and equipment, no drugs, broken beds, Lack of housing facilities etc. There is no attention

Aburi gardens are being desecrated and they are quite.

Bunso Agric station has been pushed underground.

Imagine what would have happened if Afadjato mountain top was desecrated in any way by Kufuor govt.

The ER House of Chiefs are too quiet and must assert themselves and take lessons from VR H.Chiefs.

ERHC have failed their peoples. The Regional HC has teeth so they should bite and seen to be biting. The Ofosu Ampofos, W Aboas, Appia-Kubis, Seth Tekpers, Julius Debras, Baba Jamals, Boohene, Addos and other NDC giants from the region are just greedy and and useless and must wake up.

They have failed. They look on and Aburi Gardens are vandalised; Bunso in denigrated. Atibie Road is impassable.
Joe_Joe 11 years ago

somebody is making money out of the ferry so they won't mind Ho-Sogakope road House of chiefs should call Prez Mahama to order.

somebody is making money out of the ferry so they won't mind Ho-Sogakope road House of chiefs should call Prez Mahama to order.
Chiago News 11 years ago

It is a big shame. No planning, no thinking projects through prior to implementation, no good administration strategies. In short the people lack the ability to think. Only chop chop money...

It is a big shame. No planning, no thinking projects through prior to implementation, no good administration strategies. In short the people lack the ability to think. Only chop chop money...
Afenyo 11 years ago

The alternate(Ferry at Senchi) to the Adomi bridge is not adequate. One has to spend about 3-4hours waiting to cross. Surprise the conference attendees at Senchi could not just pay a visit there to have first hand info.

The alternate(Ferry at Senchi) to the Adomi bridge is not adequate. One has to spend about 3-4hours waiting to cross. Surprise the conference attendees at Senchi could not just pay a visit there to have first hand info.
Kofi 11 years ago

What was the chiefs expecting? The whole country doesn't get anything right anymore. This is the reality in Ghana today!

What was the chiefs expecting? The whole country doesn't get anything right anymore. This is the reality in Ghana today!
adanko 11 years ago

we told you this ede bii keke northerner has no national vision. he only thinks about the north and northerners, see how he ga the nation's money freely to northerners in gyeeda, sada and rgl? VR should wake up from their sl ...
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we told you this ede bii keke northerner has no national vision. he only thinks about the north and northerners, see how he ga the nation's money freely to northerners in gyeeda, sada and rgl? VR should wake up from their slumber and ask for investment and developments in the region
Komla - The Peace Broker 11 years ago

We have top class civil engineers and planners I therefore cannot understand why this was not properly planned. One more reason NDC must go.

We have top class civil engineers and planners I therefore cannot understand why this was not properly planned. One more reason NDC must go.
EZEKIEL 11 years ago

Ghanaians CANNOT do ANYTHING right. Since when didn't we know of the Closure of this Bridge for Repairs ?? We shopuld have PLANNED for WAITING PASSENGERS, SHEDS and TOILET FACXILITIES AT LEAST at Senchi and the ROADS which ar ...
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Ghanaians CANNOT do ANYTHING right. Since when didn't we know of the Closure of this Bridge for Repairs ?? We shopuld have PLANNED for WAITING PASSENGERS, SHEDS and TOILET FACXILITIES AT LEAST at Senchi and the ROADS which are to carry the DIVERTED TRAFFIC put in ORDER.BUT
NO, Blackman is interested ONLY in expensive funerals and FOOTBALL!
What a Nation of LAZY THINKERS and PLANNERS ?......if we plan anything at all.!!!

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