ALAVANYO, NKONYA APPEAL TO GOVT ....(Page 24)

Story: Emmanuel Modey, Alavanyo-Kpeme

THE people of Alavanyo and Nkonya in the Volta Region have appealed to the government to accelerate work on the Gbi-Wegbe to Alavanyo highway to ease their plight.
They contend that due to the deplorable nature of the road, travelling between Nkonya-Hohoe and Kpando-Alavanyo has become more expensive than it used to be.
For instance, Wegbe to Alavanyo, which is only 17 kilometres and between Alavanyo and Nkonya , two kilometres but instead of this short route to Nkonya, the people have to take a detour 26 kilometres through Kpando.
When people travelling from Accra to Dzogbedze arrive in Kpando. Instead of travelling six kilometres through Kpando Dzoanti to Dzegbodze, they have to undertake a 25- kilometre journey through Nkonya to Alavanyo Kpeme and them down to Dzogbedze.
They claim they are all Ghanaians and need to go to their homes at the least expense, just as the government had seen it wise to introduce the Metro Mass Bus Service to offer less expensive transport system to other people.
But these buses at the moment are operating on good roads and the hope is that they would be put on roads like Hohoe-Alavanyo-Nkonya or Hohoe-Fodome Gbledi.
In an interview, the Paramount Chief of Alavanyo Traditional Area, Togbe Tsedze Attakora VII, said he had been informed that the road had been awarded on contract.
He, however, pleaded that some renovation work be done on the road in the interim.