Today marks exactly six months since government promised residents of Ledzokuku of fixing a road that stretches from Teshie to the Spintex Road within the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly (LEKMA) area.
The 7.5km road is of immense importance to the residents of the area as the road is the only access the municipality’s foremost health facility.
In spite of this, the road has been left unattended to for almost three decades and over, causing the Multimedia Group’s media entities, Adom 106.3 FM and Joy 99.7 FM to stage a ‘FixLekmaNow campaign.
Days after the campaign, the Minister of Roads, Kwesi Amoako Atta, was at the scene to make a promise of fixing the roads within six months.
It’s been six months since that promise and even though some progress has been made, residents say the construction works have been too slow-paced.
The dual-carriage road has one side almost tarred but there is still a lot more work to be done.
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Successive contractors – three in all – are said to have discontinued work on the road, activating clauses that allow them to suspend work on the road with persistent delays in payments by government.
Recently, another government official, Director of the Department of Urban Roads, in a visit to the construction site gave another assurance but this time, moved the completion date to June 2020, a further delay in the construction of the road by another 6 months.
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Mettle Nunoo, President of Residents Association of Ledzokuku, has however hinted of the growing impatience of residents as residents plan to once again picket against government’s reluctance in completing the stretch in the nearest future.
Dusty homes, broken down vehicles and the risk of respiratory tract infections are just a few of the things residents near the Lekma road have to deal with.
The bumby road has also been linked to failed pregnancies of women travelling the stretch as expectant mothers now prefer walking through the dust to attend ante-natal at the LEKMA Hospital.
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The Lekma Hospital which is also near the road stretch has also complained of its dust-sensitive equipment – Oxygen plant, CT Scan machine, analysers – frequently breaking down or having to be replaced as billows of dust settle on the equipment.