In A Christmas Greetings & New Year Message: Nii Ofei III Lauds Citizens, Youth For Peace In Kokrobite Lands Since Ascending The Throne
In a Christmas and New Year message, the Ga Traditional ruler noted that "the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one has always been regarded as a most propitious occasion for peoples everywhere". "It is time for them to take stock of the past and rededicate themselves to the promotion of a peaceful, prosperous and contended future for themselves and their children."
Freeman Koryekpor 
THE GAZETTED Divisional Chief of Kokrobite under the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Nii Ofei III, has sent his sincere greetings and best wishes to citizens and residents of the area as they celebrate this year's Christmas.
In a Christmas and New Year message, the Ga Traditional ruler noted that "the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one has always been regarded as a most propitious occasion for peoples everywhere". "It is time for them to take stock of the past and rededicate themselves to the promotion of a peaceful, prosperous and contended future for themselves and their children."
Nii Ofei III, therefore, asked citizens of the area to join forces with him to give thanks to God for his blessings and pray that the New Year will benefit from the wisdom and lessons of the past as this year draws to a close.
He expressed the hope that citizens and residents of the Ga State, would in unity, dedication and diligence, use the resources, with which nature has so bountifully blessed the country, to enrich and uplift their lives as a people.
Nii Ofei III said "after the joy and merriment of Christmas and its message of peace and goodwill to all mankind, I extend to all the people of Kokrobite, Accra and Ghana best wishes for good health, happiness and prosperity in the New Year"
He noted that in our quest to build Kokrobite,
l further stress the need for all the citizens and residents in the area to come together to rally support for your great Divisional Chief of Kokrobite in the person of Nii Ofei III to work hard to promote peace and unity in the area."
“I commend all your the youth in my area for their immense contribution to the peace the Kokrobite enjoys," he said and acknowledged the burdens, deferred dreams, and anxieties about the future and several other challenges the citizens of the area and Ghanaians a whole are facing, and further urged everyone to let the birth of Christ kindle hope, guiding the nation and Ga state toward a prosperous dawn.
Advise to the politicians and youth
The Ga Traditional ruler urged the leaders
of the two main political parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to desist from manipulating the youth to foment trouble before, during and after the 2024 general elections.
'We don't believe making a simple decision as to who should lead our dear country should be reason enough for destroying our only country'," he said, adding that ''we have been singing the national anthem which should challenge us to abide by the words of the anthem," the chief stressed.
The Chief of Kokrobite entreated the youth not to allow themselves to be used as a means for destruction during, before and after the 2024 general elections.
He also called on the media to desist from any act that could disturb the peace the nation had achieved, adding that the media were very crucial in contributing to the peace and vibrant democracy we are currently enjoying as a nation.
Mincing no words, Nii Ofei III commended Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, Director General of Criminal Investigations Department of Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Madam Faustina Agyeiwaa Kodua Andoh-Kwofie the Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, Commissioner of Police (COP), Dr. Sayibu Pabi Gariba and his deputy DCOP Mr. Henry Kodjo Otoo for helping to reduce the frequent “land-guard”, criminal, shooting and killing menaces in Kokrobite and its adjoining
He said land-guards had been disturbing the peace of the area for the past years, forcefully taking over lands and threatening the lives of land developers with guns and other dangerous weapons.
However, Nii Ofei III stated that God so good to them the IGP has been able to work with his team to reduce their activities to the barest minimum and now there are no disturbances of the land-guards in Kokrobite
The Traditional ruler for Kokrobite appealed to government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo through the Ministry of Roads and Highways, Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mr. Sylvester Tetteh and Ga South Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr. Joseph Nyarni to fix their deplorable road network from Kokrobitey to Old Barrier.
I want to use this opportunity to pledge my support for the recent petition to the office of the president sent by the Head of Family, Nii Arde Nkpa Family of Plerno and Kokrobite on the state of Kokrobite roads; and copied to the Honorable Minister, Ministry of Roads; the Chief of Staff, Office of the President and Honorable Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister of National Security.
Kokrobite and its surrounding communities are suffering huge vehicular traffic due to increasing volume of flow of tourists while the statutory agencies responsible for roads infrastructure, the Ga South Municipal Assembly and Urban Roads Department seemed to have turned a blind eye to our plight and failed to maintain the Kokrobite corridor roads.
The roads have deteriorated so much that they pose serious travelling difficulties, high transport costs and safety problems. These problems have contributed to reduced production and industrial activities and also constrained the development of tourism that could facilitate our socio-economic development and reduce poverty among our people.
Providing good roads to meet the demands of businesses, households and other users is one of the major challenges of economic development. Significantly, through tourism, the Kokrobite area has a huge economic potential as it contains several beach resorts serving as prime tourism destinations.
Kokrobite deserves safer and smoother road infrastructure and therefore I respectfully request that this petition will be taken on Government’s priority for the public good and the appropriate action taken to address this issue once and for all.
However the chief of the area complained about the stress on their economic activities as a result of their bad roads and have appealed to the government to repair them.
According to him, roads in the area were full of potholes and this made drivers especially, commercial ones often try to dodge, putting the lives of pedestrians and passengers in danger.
Nii Ofei III noted that movement on the roads were extremely difficult and dangerous especially as the roads become muddy and slippery anytime it rains.
The chief noted that the bad nature of the roads from Kokrobite to old barrier are affecting the smooth health delivery services to residents in the area , adding that it was more disheartening when they had health emergencies.
"We are making the series of the complains about the deplorable nature of our roads to the state road networks regulatory institutions but they refused to fix the roads for us. I am using this platform to appeal to the government to fix the road before we vote for the 2024 general elections.
The chief reiterated the call on politicians and the Assembly to fulfil numerous promises made to fix the roads in the area for them as it was distressing their lives and source of livelihood.
Speaking in an interview with journalist when he visited the Kokrobite, Stella Yaa Mensah, a fruit seller noted that her wares always got dirty and she had to wash them several times before she could attract buyers because of the dust from the road, and lamented that they inhaled the dust leading to most of them getting respiratory problems, especially flu.
Many artists, hoteliers and fisherfolk in the community also told the journalist that the deplorable state of roads in the area had rendered their businesses in distress as economic activities had slowed down because of the difficulty of their clients to access them.
Particularly for the hoteliers, they raised concerns that their hotels were not mostly patronized because of the bad roads, rendering most of the hotels in the community deserted.
They, however, indicated that while the use of motorcycles was high in the area, fares were mostly increased particularly for people transporting their wares.
“What bother us in this community are the bad roads and because of that drivers double the fares for us as their cars get faulty after a journey on the road. A few people use motorcycles because of the fear in using them,” Affoley Adotey, a fish monger complained.
She lamented that she and others most of the time ended up with stale fishes because they could not pay the fares to get their fishes to their customers, and this had made their customers resort to other fish mongers.
She noted that cars had to park when it rained heavily till it subsided before they could continue with their journeys.
“When it is raining heavily drivers have to park their cars and wait till it subsides, and we struggle to get to the hospital when there are health emergencies,” she said, adding that numerous skeletal promises had been made, she called on government to fix the roads to end their distress.
