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Residents of Eagle-nest Estates, Dawhenya, Ningo-Prampram District, have appealed to the government to construct the Afienya-Dawhenya link road, abandoned for over a decade.
The residents noted that successive governments have failed to make the road motorable in spite of several pleas from communities along the stretch.
The Afienya-Dawhenya link road was a need and great concern for the residents.
They had on several occasions expressed their unhappiness about the abandonment of the road and even threatened not to participate in any general elections because politicians were taking them for granted.
Due to the deplorable nature of the road, which had stones sticking out dangerously, in addition to gallies, commercial vehicles refused to ply the road after 18:00 hours when armed robbers attack indiscriminately under the cover of darkness.
Mr Simon Sawer Tetteh, Chairman, Eagle-nest Residents Association, said the road if properly constructed, would ease traffic on the narrow Tema-Aflao highway as vehicles heading to Afienya, Dodowa, Shai-hills and their environs from Prampram or Aflao would use that link.
Mr Tetteh was speaking over the weekend at a get-together organized by residents to socialize and plan towards the development of the area.
He added that tipper truck drivers who commute to quarry sites along the link road had turned the community inner roads into a thoroughfare as they avoid the deplorable road.
He noted that these truck drivers drove at top speed in the community, a situation, he said exposed the lives of residents especially children to danger adding that "they have destroyed the community inner roads which residents had been reshaping out of their own resources."
The Chairman appealed to the Ningo-Prampram District Assembly (NIPDA) to provide a drainage system in the community as well as help the Association to complete a police station project they initiated which was 70 per cent done.
He also called for the provision of streetlights to augment the ones residents had provided in the community while appealing to the Police to intensify their patrols in the area to ward off criminals.
Mr Sam Nartey George, Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, revealed that the Minister of Roads inspected the Afienya-Dawhenya link road following his request to him to help construct the road.
Mr Sam George explained that the Minister and other stakeholders agreed that the road which was supposed to have four-lanes (two lane each for both sides) should have one lane each completed as a temporal measure due to financial constraints.
He, however, added that it was unfortunate that even that was yet to be done and promised to file questions on it in Parliament for answers.
Mr Jonathan Teye Doku, District Chief Executive, Ningo-Prampram District, said the road project was capital intensive therefore his outfit could not do it adding however that they were in talks with the ministry to see how best the situation could be handled.
Mr Doku, touching on the other challenges of the community, promised to grade the inner roads before the rains set in, as well as provide the community with streetlights.
He urged residents to pay their rates and bills as that was the only way the Assembly could get the needed funds do development projects
