Duty bearers must be serious with Awoshie-Pokuase highway

It is unfortunate that as a country we glorify incompetence.

If that were not the case how come we look on with careless abandon when the infrastructure we have invested heavily in deteriorates not because it has had its full lifespan, but rather because we do not care a hoot about its maintenance?

A case in point is the stretch from Awoshie to Ablekuma on the main Awoshie-Pokuase highway. Just after the footbridge close to the GOIL Filling Station just before Fan Milk, the service lane has been reduced to what can be described as a footpath. The many years of erosion has washed soil onto the road, covering it.

It is mindboggling that nobody is being held responsible for this, and very soon the road will surely develop gulleys, and we would need to invest more of our scarce resources that can be used for other things to repair the road.

This is exactly what has happened to the same stretch at the Ablekuma major traffic light called Curve.

On the service lane towards Pokuase, the road has been destroyed by rainwater that gathers there. From that stretch towards Pokuase, the same challenge is evident.

Yesterday, luckily, from the village of Hope to the Pokuase interchange, I saw that the soil deposit on the main road had been gathered into mounds. As to when they would be collected, no one knows.

The prayer of many is that they will be cleared as early as possible so that it does not become a death trap to motorists.

In fact, the whole stretch from Awoshie to Pokuase should be cleared of unwanted silt. It is possible to put somebody in charge other than that we would not be serious as a nation.

The Ministry of Roads and Highways, the Ga North and Ga Central Municipal assemblies under whose jurisdictions those stretches of road fall should be up and doing to ensure that the highway is taken care of.

We cannot afford to sink huge sums of money into such infrastructure and leave it to deteriorate at such a fast rate.

It is time as a country that we showed that we are serious about developing by getting rid of those incapable of doing monitoring, evaluation and maintenance.

Let us get rid of them in every sphere of our national life and put in place competent and serious people who are willing to work. We have glorified mediocrity for so long.

Kwabena Ababio,
Amomorley,
Ga North Municipality.