Six farming communities in the Sawla-Tuna- Kalba District are appealing to the Government to build a bridge over the “Dandapere” river to link them up with the rest of the District.
The communities include Dandapere, Korle, Tumokoraa, Dinnee, Jamarkoraa and Lemiiteykoraa.
For lack of a bridge over the black Volta tributary, the communities have for a long time been cut off from basic social and economic development opportunities, especially in the rainy season when the river fills up and the people are unable to access other areas across it.
The people are therefore unable to use services such as health, education, business activities among other things for as long as the river is full.
Yagbon News in its quest to assess the situation spoke with some of the people in the the communities.
Mr Sei Kwesi, a community member narrated the ordeal teachers usually go through before crossing the river to go to school, during the rainy season.
“The performance of pupils in school is declining since many of them are unable to attend classes as regularly as they should, also health services and economic activities suffer during this period which can last for about two months,” Mr Kwesi said.
Farmers from the communities lamented their inability to transport their farm produce to the district capital where they could get market.
Mr Moses Yaan, the Assembly Member for the Nakapala Electoral Area, said he had been making efforts to address the issue.
He told Yagbon News that the lack of bridge over the river is causing the farmers a lot of financial loss as most them of them are unable to transport their farm produce to the market in Sawla.
“It is sad to tell you that a man from Dongekoraa died in river last year in November when he attempted crossing it,” Mr. Moses lamented.
Mr. Yaan Moses is therefore appealing to the DCE Hon Lawal Tamimu, the Member of Parliament, Hon. Dari Chiwitey Andrew and the NPP parliamentary Mr. Nuhu Seidu Banasco and other stakeholders to come to their aid by building a bridge over the river to improve education, health delivery, and socio economic activities in the affected communities.
Source: yagbonradioonline
