The only constituency which hasn’t got a single tarred road is the Mpohor Constituency in the western region. This orphan constituency was carved out of then Mpohor Wassa East constituency in the year 2012. The Constituency has been loyal and committed to the New Patriotic Party in terms of voting due to the fact that one of the founding fathers of the party in the person of late Stephen Kraikue comes from this constituency.
His Excellency the president of the republic , Nana Addo has a strong love for this constituency and the man Stephen Kraikue who contributed so much to the establishment of this great party, and view of this he came to the district capital to cut sod for the construction of the road last year 18th June, 2018. The contract which was awarded to JPP CONSTRUCTION LTD and it was given 18 months to complete the phase 1, the contractor is yet to move to the site to start work. This attitude of the contractor is gradually vindicating the discourse of the NDC members in the constituency that the sod- cutting was nothing but a hoax. This stretch road is the only major road into the district and it links Ahanta West Constituency to the Mpohor Constituency. Commercial drivers don’t see any change in their lives since they use all the money they get to fixing their car parts due to the bad nature of the road.
As we speak now, nothing has been done on the road. Is it that someone is not doing his work well or the contractor has no respect for our hardworking president? The people who are mostly NPP members believe strongly that the government is been sabotaged as far as this road is concern. We humbly draw the attention of the road minister and the president on this serious matter. The constituents are yet to know what’s keeping the contractor for not coming to site. Lack of seriousness on part of the contractor and all those matters are making the government unpopular in its own backyard.
Cardiovascular diseases are common among the people in the constituency due to the dusty nature of the road. Farming produce are left to rot in every harvest period because the road isn’t motorable to send them to the market centers. Tankers of Benso Oil Palm Plantation(BOPP), a company which contribute so much in terms of taxes get fall off and sometimes stuck along the road during the rainy season. And this is causing the company a lot of revenue fall.
The disappointment of the people with the state of this road saddens many who mean well for this government. The euphoria in which they met with the sod cutting hasn’t been the same with the execution of the project. We respectfully call for a change of contractor. We believe that the only way the party can honor the late Stephen Kraikue (founding father of the NPP) and the people of Mpohor Constituency who have always been there for the party is by way of getting their dusty road fixed.
The government led by H.E Nana Addo is known to be a listening government and we believe that the cry of Mpohor Constituency will also be heard by this government. The political leadership of the district and JPP CONSTRUCTION LTD have not been fair to the president and the people of Mpohor Constituency because they are seeing little efforts from them. We believe our president is going to give a listening ear and attention to this our plight as he gave to the LekMa road.
The only thing that can erase the erroneous impression about this sod cutting is to seeing our major road from Kejebril to Adum Banso through Mpohor to Benso been fixed.
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