President Mahama's directive for bridge construction: GAF Engineers undertake feasibility studies at Asuokow

Engineers of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have visited the Asuokow community in the Lower West Akim Constituency of the Eastern Region to conduct feasibility studies for the construction of a bridge over a stream.

This was in line with President John Dramani Mahama’s directive to engineers within the GAF to construct a bridge over a stream at Asuokow in the Lower West Akim Constituency of the Eastern Region to facilitate students’ movement to access school.

The directive was in response to a video clip, which went viral on social media showing a schoolboy carrying another schoolboy on his back trying to cross a stream on a fallen tree to access school.

Dr Edward Kofi Omane Boamah, Defence Minister in a statement said: “As President John Dramani Mahama assured Ghanaians, we’re working to permanently and urgently resolve the challenge the people and the school children of Asuokow are facing. We shall fix it!”

GNA