Irate residents in of Agape in the Anyaa Sowutuom Constituency in the Greater Accra Region have today 10th December 2021, hit the streets to protest the bad roads in the area.
The demostrators, who are clad in red, were seen with placards with inscriptions as follows: We’re tired of the promises”, “We are part of Ghana”, “#FixAgapeRoadsNow”, “Residents of Agape also pay taxes”, “Residents of Agape deserve better”, “We are citizens and not spectators”, “Agape lives matter”.
Speaking to the media, a leader of the protesters, Mr Twumasi Ampofo, said the protest is to tell government that they frustrated about their bad roads.
He maintained that due to the bad roads in the community, residents walk for more than 30 minutes every day to in Sowutuom and Lomnava in order to catch buses to work.
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“Some residents I have spoken to tells me that they sleep when they get to their offices because they spend long hours trekking to catch a vehicle. As residents, we don’t know if we have a Member of Parliament. We’ve been seeing his posters around but we don’t know him as our MP. If we have an MP, why has he not come to our aid, especially when the government he belongs to declared a year of roads,” leader of the protesters, Mr Twumasi Ampofo told press men.
This is the third time residents are demonstrating over bad roads in less that 3 months.
Residents of Ayimensa, Kweiman, Danfa and La Nkwantanang in the Madina Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, clashed with Police on Monday 25th October 2021 after the latter attempted to arrest the Member of Parliament for the area, Lawyer Francis Sosu during a “Fix Our Roads” demonstration to press home their demand for better roads in the area.
Residents of Omanjor near the Ofankor barrier, also marched on Wednesday, 17 November 2021, to express their displeasure in the nature of their roads.
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