Bolgatanga Roads Rehabilitation To Begin

The Department of Urban Roads is to commence rehabilitation work on roads in the Bolgatanga Municipality, Mr. Twumasi A. Boakye, Director of the Department, was speaking at the weekend during a working visit to Bolgatanga as part of preparations by the Department to start rehabilitation work on roads in the area, following the upgrading of the District Assembly to Municipal status. He was accompanied by his deputy in-charge of maintenance, Mr. J.K. Mensah and the Tamale Municipal Roads Engineer, Mr. Akwasi Nuamah.

At a meeting with the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr. Rockson Bukari, core staff of the Assembly and Regional Directors of the Lands Commission, Town and Country Planning and the Survey Department, Mr. Boakye appealed to the MCE to help provide a yard and offices for the staff and engineers of the Department to move in to start work.

He also appealed to the MCE to support the Department by getting some personnel from the Assembly to assist in the execution of the work. The project he said would include the provision of street and traffic lights and the construction of more drains to ease the flow of water to prevent flooding.

Mr. Bukari pledged the Assembly's support to improve the road network in the Municipality saying, "The people are yearning to have the roads re-shaped to befit its status as a regional capital and a transit point for vehicular traffic from Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo."