Residents Block Ayi Mensah, Danfa And Otinibi Stretch To Protest Bad Road

Some residents within the La Nkwantangang Madina Municipality in the Accra have blocked the Ayi Mensah, Danfa, and Otinibi stretch in protest of the bad nature of their road. Drivers and other road users were stranded on the Monday morning, the October 25, 2021, due to the demonstration. They’ve blocked every access to the

community and the road. School children are unable to go to school, she reported too. Some of the protestors also called on the government to without delay deploy contractors to fix their roads. We also want government to know that we are really suffering. We always go to fitting shops to get our vehicles fixed because of this

road. We want the government to come and fix our road for us, one of the protestors said. Another resident said that; We are also tired of buying spare parts and we all want the government to fix the road now. That’s all that we are asking for. The demonstration was reportedly led by the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Madina,

Francis Xavier-Sosu. The demonstration was supposed to have happened on the Monday, the October 18, 2021, however, the police said it couldn’t offer security. The protest is to express the constituency’s displeasure over the devastation caused by recent heavy rainfalls, which flooded and trapped some constituents in their

homes. According to the MP, the dire situation in his constituency following the rains is a result of neglect from the government. Francis-Xavier Sosu is also thus questioning why his constituency has been left out of the year of roads agenda touted by the government. In an interview, Sosu said his checks reveal that most of

the roads have been awarded to contractors but all the efforts to get them on site have proven futile, thus the need for the demonstration to also put pressure on the government to get them fixed. For him, the protest will drum home their demands and compel the government to quickly step in. The demonstration has been called

because of the bad nature of roads in constituency, and we have actually drawn the government’s attention to this for some time now, and it seems all our attempts have fallen on deaf ears.