The community where corpses are sent to the morgue on a motorcycle – PHOTO | Social

Commercial motorcycles known as Okada are used as an ambulance and hearse in Apau Wawase, an agricultural community in Ayensuano District, Eastern Region, as the road to the community is not driveable.

The road connecting the community to Asuboi and Suhum continues to deteriorate, forcing motorists to stop using the road.

Okada is the only means of transport used to transport food to the market and carry pbadengers.

Once again, commercial motorcycles are used as an ambulance to transport patients, including pregnant women to work, from the community health center to referral hospitals.

The Okada also serves as a hearse for transporting corpses from the morgue and burying them in the community.

"When someone dies, because the road is bad, no car wants to come here, so we put the corpse on the motorcycle while sitting, covering it with a cloth so that the family member Bereaved sits behind the corpse on the okada and hold it until we arrive at Asuboi where we will have a car to send to the morgue. Also, when we report a corpse to the morgue, the hearse can not come because of the road. So he leaves the corpse on the road so the family can use Okada to transport him to the community for burial. "

Apau Wawase is famous for producing cocoa, cbadava, maize, yams and vegetables, but the deterioration in road conditions has made it extremely difficult for farmers to transport these agricultural products to farmers. the markets of Amanase, Suhum and Accra.

The problem has strongly discouraged young people from engaging in agriculture; as a result, most of them migrate to urban centers in search of greener pastures.

The poor road network not only has negative effects on agriculture, but also on health and education because teachers and health workers seconded to the community refuse to accept badignments in the community. region. The few workers who agreed to post a trek about 10 km from Asuboï.

When it rains, these workers do not usually go to work because portions of the road without a bridge are flooded.

On January 16, 2019, residents began a demonstration to draw the government's attention to their fate.

According to Philip Konyor, leader of Apau Wawase's "Concerned Youth," organizer of the protest, politicians, including their MP Ayeh Paye, should not try to campaign in the region by 2020 if the government did not succeed in building the road.

"If that fails, we warn all political activities to be seized in Apau Wawase. Any politician who comes to Wawase does so at his own risk. Our MP is a mess, he continues to promise us deceptively. Nor should he attempt to visit the community for a political campaign. "

He stated that the only basic social equipment made available to the community to the extent that its existence is electricity.

Community leader Nana Okyere Amponsah told Starr News that the community would prevent politicians from campaigning in the community by 2020 if their road was not built.