Nungua Residents cry for good roads

RESIDENTS of Nungua have called on the department of feeder roads to work on the roads in the community to facilitate easy movement.
The Teshie-Nungua road, a route that most people from Sakumono, Ashaiman, Tema and their environs use to their various destinations within Accra, is in a very bad state.
The road is dotted with potholes right from the end of the dual carriage at the Teshie end of the road to Tema and Ashaiman and makes vehicular movement on the road difficult.
In the early hours of the day, it could take one over 30 minutes to drive through the Nungua Town alone.
When the Daily Graphic visited the area at about 6:30a.m. last Friday, there was heavy vehicular traffic on the road as residents and other road users, as usual were complaining about the slow nature of the traffic.
Mr Kwaku Antwi, a trader resident at Lashibi, said he always had to wake up as early as 4:00 a.m. with his family in order to leave the house early before getting trapped in the heavy traffic.
He said but for the intervention of the police who directed traffic at the various intersections on the road, the situation would not be different from the traffic situation on other major roads in the city.
“The Spintex road used to be an alternative route for most of us but this has also become bad as the area has developed so fast within the last few years thus attracting a lot of vehicular traffic.”
He added, “Whenever I see a contractor patching the roads, bit by bit, I ask myself if the authorities can’t use the money to construct the road at once; they just waste the money.”
Some others the Daily Graphic spoke to expressed the view that previous Members of Parliament had not helped the situation in any way hence the constant changing of MPs during elections.
They appealed to the current MP to do well to articulate the concerns of the people of his constituency as the road particularly in front of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) and others did not befit a town in the national capital.