Halt Your Demo Now Because Your Roads Will Be Fixed Soon ...North Tongu District DCE Assures Constituents
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
A call has been made to the youths including the traditional office holders, commuters and drivers in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region to rescind their highly planned decision to stage a massive peaceful demonstration.
The agitation constituents planned to hit their principal streets to register their displeasure of the abandoning of the inner road construction projects by the Ghana Road Fund in the six (6) recognized traditional areas such as Mepe, Fordzoku, Dorfor-Adidome, Volo, Battor and Torgorme.
The residents of the six recognized traditional areas stated that their various traditional areas township link roads have become so bad over the years that motorists, commuters, students and workers find it extremely difficult to use them for their daily activities especially when it rains.
The development, according to them is affecting education and businesses in their areas and they threatened to boycott the 2024 general elections if the government failed to complete the road construction projects in their areas.
They lamented that several efforts to make the North Tongu District Assembly to get the contractor to fix the roads had also proved futile.
The development, which according to them, has informed their intended decision to hit the streets to call on authorities to step in quickly to resolve their grievances.
But to ensure the peaceful coexistence of these traditional areas within the district, the newly confirmed District Chief Executive (DCE) for North Tongu, Mr Divine Osborn Kwadzo Fenu called for calm and assured the constitutes that the Assembly through his instrumentality has already consulted the contractor and very soon he would come to the sites to complete the projects to fix their roads.
The DCE was speaking to Soireenews.com to give details information about the measures his outfit has put in place to ensure that the contractor come to the sites to complete ongoing road construction projects in the six traditional areas.
This comes to light when the soireenews.com has drawn the DCE's attention of the current intended plan of the aggrieved residents to demonstrate to demand why the contractor is delaying the various roads in the district.
The DCE expressed concern about the problems caused to the people living around that stretch of the roads, adding that plans were under ways to gravel the portions of the roads which are hampering accessibility by residents.
According to the MCE who is a professional teacher, fixing the poor road networks within the 29 electoral areas within the district are most top priorities on his agenda.
He pointed out that when he assumed office and the pressure is coming from the constituents in connection of abandoned road projects in these traditional areas under his jurisdiction, he personally invited the contractor and he came to the North Tongu District Assembly for three consecutive times.
According to him, the last visit of the contractor was when the Assembly held its last General Assembly meeting when the contractor took the opportunity to speak to the various Assembly members why he has stopped works on the various road projects in the district.
The DCE pointed out that the contractor told the Assembly members that the sources of the funding of the construction of the projects are from the Ghana Road Fund Authority and that he, [the contractor] has made the certification for the collection of some money from the Ghana Road Fund Authority.
Additionally, the DCE asserted that the contractor informed the Assembly members in the meeting that he is still waiting for funds to be released by the newly constituted Ghana Road Fund Board chaired by the Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament,Mr. Alexander Afenyo-Markin.
The DCE noted that the Assembly members were entreated to ask many questions to the contractor in the connection of the projects and that the contractor took times to explain details of the challenges which were facing the construction of the roads projects.
Looking at the delay of the construction of the roads associated with the problems caused, the DCE said the Assembly has taken a step to ensure the re-gravelling of some of the areas of the roads which are dangerous to ply by the residents before the contractor came to the sites.
He said the Assembly has taken a short term measures by way of intended to embark on the road project sites visit to find out where to gravel before the road contractor come to the sites to complete the projects.
He said they had visited the sand gravel pits to find out how to collect the gravel to fill some of the dangerous areas of the roads to make them accessible to the residents.
He called on the Assembly members to ensure that they communicate to their constituents about the ongoing measures taken by the Assembly to bring social and infrastructural intervention development to the electoral areas.
He noted that when the Battor Traditional Council invited his outfit including some key stakeholders and opinion leaders to their meeting, he took opportunity to brief the chiefs and traditional office holders and elders of the Council on the numerous on-goings development issues within the district.
According to the DCE, he took upon himself to visit some of the local community information centers to brief the constituents on how they putting measures in place to fix road, school, market, health, security issues within the district.
The DCE entreated the various Assembly
members to carry out to their people in their electoral areas about various measures taken by the assembly to complete all abandoned projects in the district.
Mr Divine Osborn Kwadzo Fenu, District Chief Executive (DCE) for North Tongu
