Massive Road Projects To Hit  Anyaa Sowutuom

Roads and Highway officials will allow sections of a US$1 Million highway expansion plan in Anyaa Sowutuom to proceed while continuing to assess possible civil rights and environmental violations associated with the project’s more controversial elements.

Known as the Anyaa Sowutuom improvement Project, the three critical roads that are being considered are Agape Main Road connecting to Gbawe, Auntieku Main Road which leads to the Municipal Assembly office, Palas Town enclave within Anyaa, and parts of Awoshie. 

This project will allow the iconic Party (NPP) to make a case for continuity within Greater Accra since over 60,000 votes are at stake for whoever becomes a presidential candidate. 

The project will incorporate certain roads like the A-lang and Online Road. Many residents are worried about the safety and capacity improvement of other linkage roads and the reduction of flood risk within the municipal.

Although studies have found the existing Member of Parliament inherited the challenges, the Former Member of Parliament (MP) who doubles as the Foreign Affairs and Regional integration has stated categorically that she has laid a great foundation within the Ministry for Roads and Highways to make, Dr. Adomako Kissi’s work much easier. 

Per her speech soon after the 2020 elections at the Pentecost University, the constituency contains some of the nation’s most deadly stretches, but critics contend the constituency has had a disproportionate effect on low-income neighborhoods whiles little has been done to deliver on the promises made by the then former MP and the newly elected parliamentarian.

Agencies like Nadmo are fully aware of the plight of the people who voted massively for Greater Accra NPP. Whiles, floods are damaging businesses and displacing single-family and multi-family residences it remains worrying. 

"We think that the sitting MP together with the former MP ought to join hand in hand to push for the project to materialize before elections 2024.

.Just weeks after the agency's February 2020 record of decision on the project, the Highway Administration ordered the project to be paused while it investigates possible violations of government-funded programs.

Resumption of work at this point will be the best for the NPP. We expect Foreign Affairs Minister can bring her years of experience and closeness to the Minister of Roads and Highway to bear on the road infrastructure issues in her former Constituency especially since she is still in Government. 

Rumors around the corridors of power claim she can ensure that the order to pause the construction be changed and that will get the work done. 

The former Member of Parliament who is currently the Minister responsible for Foreign Affairs and regional integration and the sitting MP both owe it to the constituency to resolve some of the long-standing issues or the Presidential votes will be adversely affected.

These are just a few words that are dear to me as a user of the roads within Anyaa Sowutoum.