Over seven hundred concerned Taxi drivers in Tarkwa have embarked on a massive demonstration over deplorable nature of roads in Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality.
The demonstration which began 5:30 am saw market women, bankers and other companies staffers move out from their work places to catch a glimpse of the demonstration
The angry demonstrators, clad in red attire, arm bands, were brandishplacards some of which reads ‘’MCE do something before you die”, “we need good roads”, the MCE is incompetence”, and “only in Tarkwa you will see big pothole” and others.
According to the leader of Concern Taxi Drivers in Tarkwa, Samuel Akwasi Mensah in an interview with modern Ghana said, they are only given the assembly twenty one days ultimatum to do something else they will embark on full one week demonstration in Tarkwa.
He said the bad nature of roads in Tarkwa has led to collapse of their business since they can’t get requisite amount they supposed to give to their car owner at the end of day’s work.
And for this reason some of them have lost their jobs.
Samuel Akwasi Mensah further disclosed that, the deplorable nature of roads in Tarkwa has also affected their health’s conditions and even perform in the night has become big problem to them.
He said even though 4.2 billion has been capture in the assembly’s 2016 budget plan to patch on potholes in Tarkwa, they don’t want patching of potholes but rather new good road that will last long.
Meanwhile the Urban Roads Engineer for Tarkwa Nsuaem Mr. Derrick Obeng who received the drivers petitions on behalf of MCE Madam Christina Cobbinah said the government has given approval to construct artifact overlay and sooner than later the construction of roads in Tarkwa will begin.
Notwithstanding, some of the demonstrators also share their thought that if the assembly refused put up measures in place to avert the bad roads in Tarkwa, they will strip-off their dresses and embark on naked demonstration.
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