Constituents of Kwabre East in the Ashanti Region express hostility and anger against their MP over poor roads. Despite the important contribution of Kwabre East constituency, which is in terms of casting votes for the ruling party NPP, has got the most deplorable roads.
Aside the main Kumasi-Mampongten and Kumasi-Kenyase roads, the entire Kwabre East has no other tarred roads. The roads condition are moving from bad to worse.
Residents say they have not been treated well enough. They accused their representative in parliament for not doing enough to lobby road development.
‘’ We gave NPP the most votes in Ashanti Region in 2016 and 2020 elections yet we have been neglected by government as if we don’t matter . Our MP Francisca Oteng , promised to fix our roads during the campaign time but after giving her our votes she doesn’t even come around to appreciate our challenge. She better deliver on her promise or face our wrath’’ an angry constituent, Addai Kingsley warned.
“If you’re an MP and you don’t deliver, we will attack you when you come and seek for another mandate. That is a sure way of getting our leaders to work. For us at Kwabre East, our MP should be up and doing else what happened to Kyei-Mensah Bonsu will happen to her”, another resident, Isaac Kwakye told onuaonline.
Reacting to the issue, Member of Parliament for the area, Francisca Oteng expressed concern about the current state of roads but says efforts are underway to fix the roads.
“Our biggest worry in this constituency is poor roads. Constituents are justified with their anger because roads are being constructed elsewhere whiles nothing is happening here. Contractors have moved from sites. But the good news is that, the roads minister has given me the assurance that soon – within this year – work will resume on roads within the Kwabre East area. The contracts have been repackaged and awarded to different contractors’’.
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