FORSA contestant to funds for streetlights in Eastern Region

By
Bertha Badu-Agyei/ Francis Boateng, GNA

Koforidua, Sept. 20, GNA – Patience Sarbah,
the Eastern Regional Representative of the Face of Road Safety in Africa
(FORSA) is raising funds to provide streetlights in the Eastern Region.

FORSA is a beauty pageant being organized by
the National Road safety Commission (NRSC) to create awareness on road
accidents and the need to collectively provide street lights to improve
visibility on the roads.

As part of the contest, each contestant is to
choose a project based on national issue and rally the public’s support to
address it.

At a rally to launch the project dubbed “light
up the street” in Koforidua, Ms Sarbah said she is seeking to provide street
lights on the identified accident prone areas in the region to ensure road
safety.

She said some roads around Nsawam through
Suhum and Nkawakw highway are her immediate target to provide streetlights due
to darkness on that stretch of road and appealed to the public to support her.

Ms Sarbah at the launch donated three street
bulbs worth GH¢900.00 to Nana Kwaku Dei, the Nkosuohene of Pakro, a community
along the Suhum highway, to fix the streetlights in the area.  Nana Kwaku Dei, commended the contestant for
the project and urged the media to be advocates of the project by sensitizing
the public on the need to contribute to the provision of streetlights in their
communities.          

Mr Abraham Lincoln, the Eastern Regional
Marketing Officer of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), said provision of
street lights is not a mandate of the ECG and appealed to the chiefs and
community leaders to rally their people to raise funds for street lights.

He called on the public to be responsible for
the maintenance of the street lights adding that residents around where the
street lights are located should put them off during the day, to help maintain
the life span of the bulbs.

GNA