Techiman - Residents of Abourso cry over difficulty to commute to Township

Residents of New Tunsuase Electoral area popularly called "Abourso" who are mainly traders and farmers in Techiman the Bono East regional Capital are lamenting over their poor road network which makes it extremely difficult for them to commute to the central business area for their daily activities.

According to them, the roads are very bad to the extent that motors or vehicles are unable to ply or convey people/goods from town to their households or even their farm produce/goods from the Abourso community to Town or the market, especially this rainy season which has made life very unbearable for them in recent times.

Some residents who spoke to the Media further expressed their fear of a possible disease outbreak because of how their full and abandoned refuse dump site when it rains floods through their bad road pot holes and ends up entering their houses.

For his part, Mr. John Nsor, Unit Committee Chairman for New Tunsuase reiterated that their team under the leadership of Hon. Abdul Ali Sammed, Assembly member for the electoral area had made tireless efforts to get the roads fixed or even reshaped but all to no avail; nonetheless he is optimistic that the authorities would as a matter of urgency do something about their peculiar problem.

Meanwhile, Hon. John Kofi Donyinah, the Techiman Municipal Chief Executive when contacted explained that there is an ongoing reshaping exercise of all Town roads by the Techiman Municipal Assembly which Abourso community wouldn’t be excluded, therefore pleaded with the residents to exercise a little more constraint.

He assured that Techiman in no time would see a major facelift in terms of development especially roads and other infrastructures now that the City has been elevated to a regional capital status.



Story by: Nana Kwadwo Adu, Techiman.