Four communities in the Sawla-Tuna- Kalba District namely Sansateng, Soguooteng, Kpalnee and Danyuorteng have embarked on communal labor to fix their bad road linking the District capital as government failed to attend to the concerns of the residents for the past years.
The communities organized themselves and were led by Mr Datoor Joseph who is the Assembly member for the area.
They fixed some portions of the deteriorated road from Sansateng to Danyuorteng.
They used manpower to clear heaps of sand on the road, weed the narrow portions and used stones and sand to fill some portholes that nearly divided the road into two to reduce accidents on that stretch.
The Assemblyman to Yagbon News that the leaders of the area did their best to get the nuisance and a death trap road fixed by the government through the District assembly or the feeder roads for commuters but all their efforts proved futile.
Mr. Joseph , added that “until the government of the day attends to us then we will have to resort to this communal labour. We don’t have the money and power to fix the road now but our brains and energy that we can use to develop our community and that is exactly what we are doing”.
Mr Joseph noted the youth would not wait for the government to come at the time its wants.
“When an accident happens, it is our people that suffer most. But we plead to government to fix the road for us”.
The road is inundated with potholes while many portions are washed away by erosion making it dangerous for two vehicles to drive past each other and some parts always become full of water any time it rains making it difficult for the road users.
Mr Joseph further indicated that the situation has led to many preventable accidents involving both vehicles and motorcycles which needed urgent attention.
Some youth who ply the road on daily basis lamented that “the road is bad. The potholes are widening,our motorcycles and tricycles have been damaged every now and then. Accidents have been happening as a result so we are pleading with the government to construct the road for us”.
Source: yagbonradioonline
