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Member of Parliament for Madina
November 7, 2022
About a year after that infamous demonstration in which the Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis Sosu led residents of Ayi Mensah-Danfa-Otinibi and surrounding areas to draw government’s attention to the bad nature of their road networks, residents say the government is yet to undertake any significant improvement on their roads.
It was a demonstration that resulted in some altercation with the police where attempts were made to arrest the MP because according to the police the people erred in blocking portions of the road; and the MP being the organizer and leader of the demonstration would have to bear the brunt of such lawlessness.
A visit to the area revealed that very little has happened.
The contractor, Messrs Kwame Boadi, who actually moved to site immediately after the demonstrations started some works, but that was short lived.
He was only able to construct a gutter around the Kweiman Basic School which is less than a kilometer, and then abandoned the project, leaving the people to their fate.
The abandoned drains, residents say also brings its challenge as it causes the school to get flooded when it rains including people’s homes because the wtyer cannot get its path to move smoothly.
Residents say the road became so bad at a point especially during the rainy season that it took the intervention of the Member of Parliament to improve those seriously affected portions to make them motorable again.
Speaking with the MP on the seemingly no action on the roads after everything that had happened, he said it appears they are also becoming either victims of the general hardship, because almost all road contractors have not been paid for some time now.
However, government is becoming a bit discriminatory when it comes to payment of those contractors, because they can still witness some improvements in some parts and some quarters. “So why do we have a situation where some quarters are able to get some improvements and others are not able to get anything at all; that is where you see like there are some discriminatory ways of distributing the national resources and that is absolutely wrong and unacceptable”, he lamented.
He said it is his hope that government will improve its work and improve equitable distribution of national resources to ensure that places like Madina get its fair share.
According to him, roads in Madina have not seen any major improvement in the last six years except for Madina West and part of North Legon “but beyond that every part of Madina is messed up, and government doesn’t seem to really care about it”.
He disclosed that he was compelled to start the self-help project where he rallied some members of the community to use part of his SIF to get a grader to improve some portion, adding that that small stretch caused them about GHC120, 000.00.
He expressed hope that the government would be able to take some steps to be able to address the concerns of the constituents.
Dominic Shirimori/Ghanamps.com