From Sebastian R. Freiku
The Amansie Central District Assembly has embarked on massive reshaping and spots improvement exercise on road networks in the district to render them motorable ahead of the upcoming rainy season.
This, management believes, will relieve commuters off the annual frustrations due to the bad nature of the roads. The first phase of the project, which began last week, is expected to cover a total of 127 kilometres.
Some of the targeted links under phase one include the seven-kilometre Jacobu-Fiankoma through Behenase road, 17.4-kilometre Fiankoma-Mile Nine, 12.4-kilometre Abuakwaa-Kobro-Odaso and 8.7-kilometre Hia-Mile 14 to Atia roads.
The rest are 4.5-kilometre Fiankoma-Abutunso, 13-kilometre Abutunso-Abuakwaa, 37.3-kilometre Tweapease-Atabrakoso, 18.7- kilometre Mile 15 Kronko and 32-kilometre Mile 15-Afiamoaso stretch among many others.
The District Chief Executive, Emmanuel Dede Appiah, told Ashanti File that all roads in the district are feeder in nature, but efforts are being made to consider them under the Cocoa Roads packages.
He said the assembly cannot fail to get the roads shaped while consideration for the Cocoa Roads package is being considered.
The DCE observed that revenue mobilisation is on the lower side, as the nature of the various roads does not correspond with the economic potentials of the district. He regretted that poor road connectivity has even made nonsense of some of the otherwise beneficial social infrastructures such as health and educational facilities, which the assembly has undertaken with its limited resources.
He pointed out that even roads in the Jacobu township do not befit the status of a district capital. Dede Appiah disclosed that an appeal has been made to the authorities to work on the seven-kilometre Jacobu town roads, which have been abandoned since 2011.
DCE Dede Appiah commended a timber firm and some small scale mining entities for their assurance to reshape the 42-kilometre Fenaso-Bepotenten road, and called on other corporate bodies in the district to emulate the gesture.
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