GNA receives the brunt of public frustration at state of road

The Ghana News Agency office at Aflao has virtually become an office for people to lodge complaints against the Ghana Highways Authority for its inability to rehabilitate the road at the Ghana/Togo border.
Groups of residents, individuals and traders visit the GNA office daily to complain about the bad nature of the road that becomes waterlogged whenever it rains.
Personnel of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Port Health and Plant Quarantine and others who operate at the border have also been appealing to the GNA to highlight the problem because the situation was affecting their operations at the border.
The road leading to the frontier, the frontier and its car park and pedestrians' passageways have developed huge potholes made deeper, slippery, dangerous and impassable by heavy rains.
Some residents are of the view that the road is giving the country a bad image.
Mr. Justice Cudjoe, the Ketu South District Chief Executive, told the GNA that President John Agyekum Kufuor would cut the sod for work to begin on the Akatsi/Aflao segment of the Accra/Aflao highway including the Aflao border roads in August.
"I would like to assure the people that the government is aware of the situation at the frontier and will take it up soon", he said.