By Dennis Peprah, GNA
Abesim, (Bono), Sept. 7, GNA – A Ghana News Agency (GNA) report on the dilapidated condition of the Ankrana River Bridge, at Abesim near Sunyani, has received public assistance and thereby empowering the community to rehabilitate the footbridge.
Hitherto, school children and women in particular, who crossed the Akrana River everyday exposed their precious lives to danger due to the bad shape of the footbridge.
However, a GNA report for public support for the rehabilitation of the bridge yielded a positive response.
During a visit, the GNA noticed that the Ankrana community members, led by Mr Kingsley Kusi Appiah, the Assembly Member for the Abesim Akobea Electoral Area, undertook major repair works on the footbridge.
They replaced old with new lumbers to make the bridge friendly and usable to children and women, as the rains settled in the area.
In an interview, Mr Appiah commended Dr Kwasi Nyame-Baafi, a native of Abesim and some few others for coming to the aid of the community to fix the bridge.
He said Dr Nyame-Baafi, also a development economist, policy analyst and a lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) took almost all the cost for the repair works.
“Dr Nyame-Baafi’s concern towards addressing the plight of these less privileged people is what must motivate all of us, and not even the cost involved, towards giving back to society”, Mr Appiah advised.
Some of the women in the community who could not hide their joy expressed their heartfelt appreciation to the Assembly Member and Dr Nyame-Baafi for the assistance and appealed to the government to replace the wooden structure with a steel bridge.
GNA
Edited by George-Ramsey Benamba
Reporter: Dennis Peprah
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