Dear DCE,
I trust your very person and others in your outfit are doing well!
This seem to be my first letter to you since your assumption into office earlier this year. I am writing to you on an urgent issues that if not attended to,may claim lives in the not too far. Destructively, the same issues have started costing unsuspecting people colossal sums of monies.
The issues have to do with the actions and inaction's of departments under your outfit,the District Assembly, the Tumu township and the District at large has being plagued with life threatening potholes while some developing into manholes and all what the District can do is to sit aloof and spend huge sums of monies on our tipper truck and Carterpilar all in the name of maintenance.
Reliable information I picked shows that, these two so called assets have never raked in just one thousand Ghana cedes, when even a trip of sand cost almost three hundred Ghana cedes. As for the grader the less talked about it the better. Your people have an anti-development attitude of always procuring parts to fix it even when is on road working,to an extent we currently have a spare part procured and lying down when it was not needed.
There are these three deep potholes on the main lorry station to the customs border stretch of road that have been left unattended to for some time now. The last pothole before the border has been spot for vehicles somersaulting and in the spree of two weeks we have recorded several accidents and as I write now currently lying down there is a heavy truck with goods splashed all over the grounds. Damages cannot be counted.
With all these, the Assembly has a revenue collector 24/7 at the border whose surveillance is more than a camera, taking in revenue for the assembly but it has never occurred to the Assembly to fill those potholes.
Now questions that need answers, who is responsible for filling the potholes? What was the rational for buying the two assets?who signed them to duties? Annually how much the does the Assembly rake in from the two assets? Should we always wait for the president to visit before we pretend to fill potholes? Is our Assembly manned by reactionary leaders instead of proactive leaders?
The district Assembly has taken us for granted for far too long. It is time we tell them in their faces enough is enough. The are bent on using the two assets to milk the District. Engineers who have penchant for harassing contractors for bribes and facilitating shoddy works.
It is a shame, we get paid for no work done. It is a shame to take revenue from these vehicles and facilitate their accidents. The is totally irresponsible on the part of the Assembly.
Wake up! Wake up? It is not two late.
By: Ayamga Dataw
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