The Afigya Kwabre South District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana is next in line to benefit from government’s Year of Roads implementation promised in 2020.

A sod-cutting ceremony was held at the Ankaase School Park on Monday, June 1, 2020, for works on roads to begin in the District.

Few residents including chiefs, queen mothers, and other stakeholders present at the event seem satisfied with the approach after years of confrontation due to the deplorable nature of roads in the District which has affected development in the area.

 

 

The project, which will last for 12 calendar months has its phase 1 starting from Aboaso through Gyama Pensan to the Ankaase community and will be directed towards Nagyan to Daboya, Mpobi, and Ejuratia. Phase 2 will also commence from Aboaso toll boot to Hemang, Abrade, and Mamponteng. It will then proceed from Hemang to Mpobi, Wawase, and end at Swedru.

Speaking at the occasion, the Member of Parliament for Afigya Kwabre South, Hon William Owireku Aidoo called for patience from residents of the District when it comes to addressing their social needs to interest government’s attention to come to their aid.

According to the MP, the building of roads and the executing of mandates to empower lives takes time to process and undertaken therefore leaders assigned to lead keep pressing for citizens' challenges to be resolved and not vice versa.

Hon. William Owireku Aidoo was responding to criticisms of inhabitants in the Ankaase community regarding the poor state of roads at the sod-cutting ceremony of the Ankaase Enclave held on Monday, June 1, 2020.

 

 

“Roads in the District has been a major challenge in this place but it takes time to implement plans to work on projects like this,” he said.

“The year of roads is a nationwide implementation that affects all the MMDAs which we are included. We are sometimes not happy at the complaints leveled against us because we are all fighting for one common goal. Sometimes people have the thought that we do not care about what they go through but that is not true.

 

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“The Roads Minister has been pressed by noble personalities from Ankaase which is sometimes channeled through the President yet he keeps informing that it is a routine, assuring us that it will soon get to us. Here we are celebrating the day. We are doing the best to get this community served including other infrastructures and scholarship schemes.

"Everything takes time. Just have patience and we will do whatever is needful to help our people," he ended.

 

 

The District Chief Executive for Afigya Kwabre South, Hon. Christian Adu-Poku acknowledged the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for living up to his promises. He further announced that a sod-cutting ceremony will take place in another District, which also reveals the series of steps taken to carry the accomplishments of road projects in the Ashanti Region.

“There will also be a sod-cutting for the Buoho, Brofoyedu, Maase, and Meduma next week

"From Kodie to Apagya, Nkwanta Kese and Edwenase are all under construction

“This means the year of roads has come of benefit to Afigya Kwabre south. The president has indeed though good of us and we are grateful,” he said.

 

 

The DCE pleaded unto the chiefs and queen mothers to welcome a genuine project in the Afigya Kwabre South under the auspices of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. He announced that a modern Housing Unit Package will soon be undertaken in the District and all that is required is a land for the execution of the development.

“We are pleading to chiefs to provide us lands when the time for the project is due. Through the Asantehene, there will be a modern housing unit packaged with two factories and a University. All we need is land. The land will not be for free, the Asantehene will make provision for them,” he added.

 

 

He added that the Member of Parliament has also enforced the broke security system in the District and a new Police Commander has been employed. The MP assured to provide him two motorbikes to assist his work and be able to catch up and stop violators in the community.