Settlement residents mount roadblock to protest deplorable roads

The residents say there was an urgent need to fix the deplorable road network which has since become a death trap.

At a communal labour organized to create possible paths as road diversions for the community, the Assemblyman for the area, Ananpansah Abraham, said they had come to the understanding that mere words and promises cannot solve their problem any longer.

The disgruntled residents mounted roadblocks to prevent the heavy-duty trucks such as tipper trucks and dozers from plying the almost worn out road to excavate gravel from the area.

According to the Assemblyman, the Department of Urban Roads had reached out to him, through the effort of the Savannah Regional Minister to assure that they were going to reshape the road.

He added that since then, nothing has been done on the road warranting their action.

“Any action to that effect needs to be urgent and now in order to prevent any unforeseeable danger ahead of the raining season,” he justified the protest.

It can be recalled that residents of Settlement some weeks ago, expressed deep worry about the destruction of the road network leading to the community.

This they said was having a heavy toll on the community and putting the lives of motorists and pedestrians, especially women, farmers and school children at risk.

At a community durbar to review activities for last year 2021 and set community goals for the year 2022, the Assemblyman, Ananpansah Abraham said the extent of destruction of the road by tipper trucks and dozers used to convey gravel from the gravel pit in the area was disheartening.

According to him, he was brokenhearted to see the Canteen-to-Settlement road which hitherto was in very good shape and motorable, suddenly turn into a sandy and dusty path due to the gravel digging activities, which was posing economic and health risk to residents.

The situation he said, was likely to worsen during the rainy season if something is not done urgently.

The Assemblyman said the constructors and individuals have failed in their several promises to reshape the road after the several community complaints laid to them and stakeholders on the need to maintain the very road they were plying with their heaven.