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Mr. Tettey, driven by pbadion and philanthropy, did not expect financial rewards, but it turned out that users of his adopted roads deeply appreciated his services.
He told the Ghana News Agency that he was filling potholes in some of the main streets of the two areas for four years.
According to him, he began voluntarily filling the potholes on the road connecting the Tema Community Nine Cemetery to the T-Havana Parks restaurant where he worked for two years.
He added that his work on this stretch had ended when he had been asphalted.
According to him, he went on the road between the Kpone police fence and the Michel camp on the Ashaiman-Akosombo road, after receiving information from some commercial drivers that the road had a lot of nests. -poule making driving dangerous.
Mr. Tettey, a resident of Klagon in the Tema West municipality, said the work was very lucrative because "on a normal day, I earn about 80.00 GHS and on good days I earn 150.00 GHS or more".
He said that his former job as a security guard in a private company did not pay much. He was therefore determined to continue filling the potholes to earn extra income to take care of his family.
He said he bought a shovel while officials from the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly provided him with a wheelbarrow in appreciation for his volunteer service.
He however expressed the hope that the road construction companies would use it to work properly on these roads and thus earn an income after gaining practical experience of road maintenance.
The filling of potholes had become a lucrative activity among young men in Tema and its environs. Several of them were on the TOR-Kpone road, among other things, filling the holes and galls created by erosion with sand, stones, clay and debris that They found. with ease.
They use a number of strategies to call on drivers to get money, but some of them demand by right and even curse those who challenge them.
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