Teshie-Agblezaa:Resume work now or face our wrath – Residents insists

 In the Greater Accra Region inhabitants, of Teshie-Agblezaa have given the government a three-week ultimatum to resume work on the deplorable Teshie-Agblezaa to Manet road or face their wrath.

According to them, the lack of attention to the road project shows the insensitivity of successive governments to the challenges commuters face using the road.

The 7.5km road links Teshie Lascala, Agblezaa, Manet Estate through to Spintex Road.

The project was awarded to Malin Investment at a contract sum of GHc62 million but the project stalled after the 2016 election.
In June 2018 the Minister for Roads and Highways said the government had paid GHc16 million out of the GHc35 million outstanding balance to the contractor.

He added that the contractor was supposed  to resume work within six days, but it has been five months since the Road Minister made those commitments, and the road remains the same.

Angry about this situation, the residents embarked on a protest on Sunday and gave the government a three-week ultimatum to fix the road or face their wrath.

One of the protesters, Prosper Tindani, told Citi News monitored by Prime News Ghana that “the Roads Minister promised the construction of the road on June 8, 2018, we are in November, and not even single gravel has been seen on site.”

“We therefore, call on the Roads Minister to apologize to the good people of Teshie for the lies and deceit. Should the government fail to find a solution to the issues raised after three weeks, we will embark on further actions until the government listens to us,” he added.

Some residents of Teshie Agblezaa also expressed their frustrations.

“The drivers are always complaining. Almost every time they are going to the shops,” they lamented.

Meanwhile, Citi News understands that the road is going to receive a facelift after the protest.




The Chief Executive Officer of Malin Investment, the firm engaged in constructing the Teshie-Lascala road, Francis Kpelu, in February 2018 said work on the 7.5-kilometer stretch stalled because the government has not paid monies owed the company.

 Mr. Kpelu said his firm had completed work on over 30% of the project but stopped in 2016 because four of the five certificates they sent to the government for payment, totaling GH¢25 million have not been honored.

“Since we started this road, we raised certificate number one, two, three, four and five. It is only number one that has been honored by the government.

“As I’m talking to you, we have outstanding payments from number two, three, four and five, totaling GHc25 million. The question is, if a local person wants to do something to support the whole country, should we be treated this way? For over one year now, we have not worked on the road because they have not paid us,” the contractor added.


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Francis Kpelu added that because work on the project had stalled for so long, most of the progress they made had eroded “so you will think that nothing has been done, which means that a lot of money will be required to re-fix the road.”




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