Friday , March 29 2024

Tarkwa residents block traffic in protest over bad roads

Residents of Tarkwa in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality have once again blocked the main Tarkwa-Takoradi in protest of its deplorable state.

The protest disrupted traffic causing gridlock on the over 10-kilometre Tarkwa-Ahietieso stretch of the main road.

Residents are presently burning tyres and mounted barriers leaving commuters stranded.

Police are trying to bring protesters under control, according to a reporter with Space FM, Nana Esi Brew.

The angry residents demonstrating said the government has taken them for granted. They have petitioned the Municipal Chief Executive for the area on the matter.

“I stay close to this road and over the years this road has been in a very deplorable state. When you ply this road, it is either you fix your car every week or every other day,” one of the protesters said on the Citi Breakfast Show.

Apart from that, he also complained about the dust from the road and trucks moving to and from mining companies.

“…The dust that comes in when you are in your house and you inhale it, the kind of sickness you will face, only the doctors will be able to tell.”

Residents have in the past complained that not enough revenue from the major economic activity in the area is channelled into infrastructure.

The Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality is one of the leading producers of gold in Ghana.

Heavy-duty vehicles transporting cocoa, bauxite and Manganese for export to the Takoradi Harbor also use the road, putting a lot of pressure on the stretch.

In September 2018, some Tarkwa chiefs led residents to block roads in protest grinding economic activities to a halt.

Source : citinewsroom.com

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