Nana Owusu Gyan II
Nana Owusu Gyan II, Chief of Cherehin in the Kintampo South District of the newly created Bono East Region, has appealed passionately to the Ministry of Roads and Transport to help reconstruct a ramshackle bridge linking the area to other parts of the region.
According to the traditional leader, the
unfortunate state of the bridge has now become a deathtrap for his people, especially
schoolchildren and farmers, who use the bridge. He, therefore, wants the
problem to be fixed before it compounds.
Nana Gyan made the appeal through DAILY
GUIDE during their annual Munufie YamFestival held over the
weekend.
He said on several occasions the youth tried to
do some repairs on the bridge but it had reached a point they could no longer
fix the difficult part unless the government employed the service of
experienced engineers.
Nana Gyan commended the government for its
support to the Kintampo South District in terms of education, health, roads,
among others. In spite of that, he said still much had to be done.
The chief revealed that Cherehin and its
surrounding communities are predominantly farmers who largely depend on the 7-kilometre
road hence the need for urgent attention.
He said President Akufo-Addo’s Free Senior High
School policy had given thousands of Junior High School graduates the
opportunity to enjoy second cycle education for free.
He, therefore, entreated Ghanaians, especially
politicians (opposition groups), educationists and other social groups to look
out for ways to sustain the policy and desist from concentrating on its
weakness.
From Eric Bawa, Kintampo
