Kpando (V/R), Nov. 17, GNA – Mama Dunyo I, Queen mother of Kpando Torkor in the Kpando Municipality, has appealed to government and the road minister to as a matter of urgency, intervene and work on the Kpando Torkor roads.
“The Torkor road has deteriorated, it has become bad for a very long time and is causing a lot of miscarriages among our pregnant women, affecting all ages and our children are dying on the road.”
Mama Dunyo speaking on the side line of a demonstration held by close to thousand “Torkor Youths for Development”, said “if after all our pains and shouts they fail to see to our road, no party should come to us for votes.”
“The ballot boxes will come and we will not vote. They will come back for the empty boxes. We have fish, leafy vegetables, salt and cassava. We have the pontoon operating here yet our roads are not good.”
She said their children completed schools but had no jobs and resorted to riding “okada” and most were hungry and some were knocked down due to the bad nature of the road, which needed to be addressed.
Duosor Gbadagbali II of Kpando Torkor, noted that a lot of foodstuffs were produced from the town as well as the harbor at Torkor where fishes were harvested for export.
He said the dilapidated nature of the road had stopped their customers from patronising their products, which led to their goods going bad and was an issue affecting the community.
Duosor Gbadagbali noted that revenue was generated from the Kpando market, hence they deserved an asphalted road that would be constructed from Kpando to Torkor.
He noted the landing beach for the pontoon had sunk under the water causing the pontoon to stop operating and cars had also stopped plying the road.
Duosor Gbadagbali appealed to the government and the Ghana Highway Authority to intervene and work on their road to bring business back to normalcy.
Regent Gabriel Bavor, Kpando Dzigbe, said the situation had affected the trade of the women from the communities, making their idealness problematic, while the progress of the youth, retarded.
A trader, Christine Addo, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that, the nature of the road had worried their health, adding that “it is always gblo gblo gblo all the time.”
Kpando Torkor, is a clay producing, farming and a fishing community with a population of about 6,800 people with great tourism potential. It has 11 primary schools, seven Junior High Schools and a clinic.
Some of the placards they held had inscriptions such as “we are just demanding our fair share of the national cake”, “Volta also deserves development”, “year of roads but nothing to show”, “Road Minister, do your job well”, “rest in peace to all gone souls, #Fixourroads”, “explore the tourism potential of Kpando Torkor” among others.
GNA