Government will close the bridge over the Kasawere River

General News on Thursday, April 4, 2019

Source: : Emmanuel Yaw Acheampong

2019-04-04

The Ministry of Roads and Highways, in collaboration with the Ghana Highways Authority, will close the bridge over the Kasawere River from next week to allow the contractor, MM. Jo-Mint Associate, to perform emergency work on the three-cell culvert 4 meters by 4 to replace the bridge. bridge.

The busy bridge on the Oda – Aboabo section of the Oda – Agona Swedru road in the Eastern Region will be repaired due to defects in the infrastructure. The number of days of work scheduled after closing is not clear.

Another proposed route is the Oda-Aboabo bypbad, which will be officially opened on the day of the closure of the Kasawere River Bridge by the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr. Kwasi Amoako-Atta.

This was revealed by Akyem Oda MP, Mr. William Agyapong Quaittoo, at the 1st regular meeting of the 4th session of the Birim Central Municipal Assembly in Akyem Oda, in the region of 39; East.

Mr. Agyapong Quaittoo took the opportunity to advise motorists who crisscross this section of the road to respect the direction and safety signs that will be placed at the appropriate point of the road.

According to him, a time bridge will be erected laterally to allow pedestrians to go to the Jubilee Hospital and close to the bridge.

In his address to the session, Mr. Kwabena Bempong, Director General of Birim Central (MCE), announced that the Assembly had been selected from some 25 municipalities to benefit from the Ghana Support Program for Secondary Cities. (GSCSP).

The program, he said, targets institutional and infrastructural development in emerging and secondary cities of the country – it aims to address some of the important development challenges while helping to implement decentralization and urban development policies. of the government.

"I am pleased to announce that the Assembly is one of 25 municipalities in the country to benefit from the Ghana Secondary Cities Support Program (GSCSP)," he said.

The initiative is an agreement between the Government of Ghana and the International Development Association (IDA).

Mr. Bempong noted that the development of these secondary cities would allow municipalities to play their key role as administrative centers; as incubators for the development of small enterprises and as nodal points of the links between rural and urban areas.

According to him, it would be a matter of developing the municipal capitals of the beneficiary municipalities. The facilities were selected according to the population of between 100,000 and 250,000 inhabitants and bademblies composed of at least 60% of the urban population.

Siding government flagship programs, Mr Bempong revealed that the Planting for Food and Employment initiative had registered a significant increase from 247 farmers in 2017 to 1,500. He added that corn productivity at the end of the year had also increased by 25%.

He revealed that the municipality had also been selected for a special pilot project on rice, with 110 hectares of rice being grown this year.

About the local industrialization initiative of the One District Initiative, One Factory (1D1F), Mr Bempong said that a business plan of Abibimo , a rice flour milling company based in Oda Nkwanta, had been submitted to the 1D1F secretariat for review and appealed to the secretariat to speed up the process to allow the company to begin operations.