WULENSI ROADS UNMOTORABLE

The lack of good roads to the hinterlands where a lot of farming activities take place is further compounding the poverty situation of the people of Nanumba South District of the Northern Region, as farm produce harvested and ready to be carted to the markets are left to rot because vehicles could not go to such places to salvage the glut.

As the rainy season approaches again, the chief and people of the Nanumba South area, are appealing to the government to consider as a matter of urgency and asphalt the inaccessible road networks in the district in order to improve upon their economic situation.

The Paramount Chief of the Wulensi Traditional Area, Naa Salifu Wumbei who made this passionate appeal, said the poor nature of the roads in the Wulensi Township and its outlying communities are not in the best of shapes.

The Chief was speaking to the media at his Wulensi Palace to express his concern about the bad nature of the roads in the area and its effects on development in the district and for that matter, the Northern Region as a whole.

Naa Wumbei said after every rainfall, the number of potholes on the roads increases and that required that the pavements should be strengthened and sections of the roads improved to protect the huge investments made by the District Assembly or Central Government.

He also called on the District Assembly to develop an effective roads development policy and maintenance programme, to ensure that roads are properly maintained during rainy seasons.

The Paramount Chief further appealed to government to have a second look at the roads network in the Eastern Corridor especially the Kete-Krachi-Bimbilla road, Wulensi through Damanko to Accra road among others.

He however, commended the government for quickly responding to the Wulensi-Nakpayili road which was in a very terrible shape right after assumption of office.

The Paramount Chief of Wulensi called on the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the Ghana Education Service to provide more accommodation facilities and classrooms to cater for students and teachers of the Wulensi Senior High School saying, “the school which is the only Senior High School in the area, cannot be run effectively due to lack of inadequate classrooms and hostel facilities to accommodate the increasing number of students”.

Naa Salifu Wumbei assured government that he will need no campaign should he be able to attend to the problems identified to him come 2012.