New Krobo (B/A) Nov. 3, GNA - Mr. Francis Ameyaw-Mensah, Assembly Member for Abanim in Techiman municipality has appealed for the reconstruction of the narrow bridge over River Tano on the Techiman-Sunyani trunk road. He told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that residents of several communities were often cut off from the rest of the municipality due to floods that rendered the road impassable. "Due to the narrow bridge, people and their belongings are sometimes carried away by the strong current of the floods and forced school children to stay at home for about three days", the Assembly member added.
He named the affected communities as New Krobo, Jerusalem, Waoso, Twimia Koase, Nkwanta, Nkwaeso, Agosa, Bonkwae, Nsuta and Nkrankrom. Mr. Ameyaw-Mensah cited numerous motor accidents that had claimed several lives on the narrow bridge, including two school children of a recently the drowning of an employee of the Municipal Assembly who also lost his motor bike.
In a related development, the MP for Techiman South, Mr. Addai Simons has inspected work on 60 million cedis concrete bridge over Kwaforosua stream to link Kenten and Mamprusiline communities in Techiman. The MP donated 27 million cedis in support of the project and commended the people for their initiative and urged religious, social and political organizations to tolerate each other for progress in communities.
Mallam Yahaya Musah, Assembly Member for Konimase electoral area, urged parents in the area to effectively monitor the activities of their children to steer them away from indulging in social vices. He deplored the constant attendance by some children at video shows and advised the parents to keep their children at home to study instead of allowing them to loiter in the streets. The Assembly Member warned cattle owners to keep their animal in kraals as they cause a lot of nuisance in town with their droppings else they would be arrested and sent to the Municipal Assembly where the owners would be made to pay fines.
