TWO days of torrential rains have washed away the concrete bridge over River Fantibi at Gbi Akpamafu on the 16-kilometre road from Gbi Wegbe to Alavanyo and Hohoe.
Following the collapse of the bridge, travellers from Wegbe to Alavanyo and Nkonya, for instance, have to make a detour of 26 kilometres through Kpando.
The Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive, Mr John Peter Amewu, and the Volta Regional Feeder Roads Manager, Mr Herbert Koranteng, were at the spot last Tuesday to access the extent of damage.
Mr Koranteng declared the road temporary closed to traffic and said in the interim measures would be put in place for renovation work to be done on it for light vehicles.
The Paramount Chief of Alavanyo Traditional Area, Togbega Tsedze Attakora VII, made an appeal through the Daily Graphic to the government to accelerate work on the Gbi-Wegbe-Alavanyo highway to ease their plight.
He said due to the deplorable nature of the road, travelling from Nkonya to Hohoe and Kpando to Alavanyo had become more expensive than it used to be.
Togbega Tsedze further appealed to the government to introduce the Metro bus service in the area to offer a less expensive transport system to the people.
Meanwhile, renovation work on the Gbi Wegbe-Alavanyo-Nkonya highway is moving at a snail’s pace. So far, the first phase of the project, which was awarded on contract about a year ago, and involving work on the culverts and drains, had just resumed.
The total cost of the facelift is GH¢ 6,600.
The contractors working on the project, Messrs Canary Company Ltd, said they were limited to only phase one and maintained that the second phase would involve the construction of bridges but resurfacing of the road had not been awarded to them.
*The Municipal Chief Executive, Mr John Peter Amewu, and Mr Herbert Koranteng, the Volta Regional Feeder Roads Manager, accessing the extent of damage to the concrete bridge over River Fantibi that links Gbi Wegbe and Alavanyo.
No comments:
Post a Comment