GOVT SECURES GRANT TO CONSTRUCT ELUBO TOWN ROADS P. 20

Story: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Elubo
The government has secured a Japanese grant for the construction of town roads in Elubo in the Jomoro District of the Western Region.
The project is under the District Capital Road Improvement Project would cost more than GHC500,000 and would be completed in one year.
The project would include tarring of the road and construction of drains in the township.
At the sod cutting ceremony, the Western Regional Minister, Mr Paul Evans Aidoo called on chiefs and people of Elubo to cooperate with the contractor in its quest to expand and construct drains.
He urged them to remove containers on the shoulders of the road to pave way for the contractor to complete work on schedule.
The minister said an inspection of the various areas that would be covered under the project, protruding kiosk and extension of structures had taking huge part of the road.
He said even though that was due to the long neglect of the of the town roads the cooperation of the people was the only lifeline towards the completion of work on schedule.
He said that would create a huge problem for the contractor saying “I am pleading with you to ensure that those structures are removed before the contractor reaches your stands.”
“I must be honest with you that, your refusal to pull back for the road to be constructed could create a setback for the development of the are, the funding for the project covers a period of one-year and any delay means the government would have to dole out more money,” he said.
The minister used the opportunity to call on chiefs and people of the area and the region as a whole to settle all chieftaincy disputes and ensure that development did not elude the people.
“Many of the letters and discussion with the people had to do with chieftaincy, my people let me tell you that, there cannot be development in the situation we found ourselves,” he said.
“Development is one very expensive commodity and on high demand and it would not wait for us to decide in a distant future before it come, we take the path of peace now to ensure that we grab as much as we can,” he said.
For his part, the former member of Parliament, Mr Lee Ocran who source the grant from the Japanese with counterpart funding from Government of Ghana said his dream was to ensure that the people of the area.
Mr Ocran who used the opportunity to bid his constituents farewell and said would do his best to present Ghana well to the countries outside in his new mission as the high commissioner to South Africa.