A group calling itself the ‘Young Democrats Sissala East’ has called on government to as a matter of urgency fix the roads in and around the Sissala area. In a letter signed by the Communications Director of the ‘Young Democrats Sissala East’ Prince Justice Ali and copied to the MCE for the Sisssala East Area, Fuseini Batong along with the MP for the Area, Amidu Chinnia Issahaku, the youth group demanded that government “wakes up from its slumber and deliver on its promises to the good people of the Sissala land”. The group charged the MCE for the area to “see this as a clarion call on him to, at his very best, champion the course of development in the constituency”.
The youth group explained that the 100 percent endorsement of the MCE, Fuseini Batong should send the signal that the people of the Sissala East Municipality are not necessarily concerned about partisan politics but rather the holistic development of the Sissala East; particularly in the area of roads.
The group indicated that the “current MP appears to be doing more of a PR job on the issue of our roads network rather than finding real solutions to our roads problems. All his steps in this regard have always started and ended in the media”.
The group while admitting that all successive governments had failed the people of the area, it maintained that this government’s failure has been grand. “Since independence, various successive governments have always attempted temporary solutions on our roads. These quick-fix solutions have often brought some improvement on our rather bad roads by maintaining and making them somehow motorable. However, it’s sad to say that, this Nana Addo/Bawumia NPP government, despite all the lofty promises prior to the 2016 elections, has failed to even carry out the usual maintenance works that previous governments used to do on the roads,” the statement said.
The group made further claims that projects that began under the erstwhile Mahama administration had been abandoned. They cited the Tumu-Walembelle road, Kulfuo-Tumu road, Tumu-Gwollu-Han road, Tumu-Bolga road as some of the abandoned road projects.
In the statement signed by Mr. Ali, the Young Democrats, Sissala East commended John Mahama’s drive to better the roads in the area. They credited him with the creation a number of feeder roads including the Nmandouanu-Nabugubelle, Nabugubelle-Sumboro road, Nabugubelle-Challu road, Sakalu-Santie-Jijen road, Nabulo-Duu road, and the tarring of Tumu town roads as well as the creation of new roads in Tumu along with the construction of some bridges.
The group urged the Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Atta to take steps to address the concerns of the people in the area. “The Honorable Minister of Roads and Highways was recently in the Sissala land, and experienced firsthand the predicament of our people over the years, when his car reportedly got a flat tyre due to the bad roads. We call on the minister to take steps to have our major Sissala roads tarred as part of the year of roads projects. This consideration should be done with the speed of light. The Sissala people have been marginalized for far too long, the group said.
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