President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has instructed the Minister of Roads and Highways to commence work on the construction of the Akoti Junction to Senya Beraku Road, in honour of the late Haruna Esseku
He made the disclosure on Friday during the commissioning ceremony of the APPEB Cylinder Manufacturing Company Ltd., in Chochoe in the Awutu Senya West constituency.
The late Haruna Esseku was a former National Chairman of the NPP and a former Minister of Transport in Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia’s Progress Party government of the 2nd Republic.
The President acknowledged that the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin, “has done a very good job in lobbying persistently for this road to be constructed, just as he did for the Bawjiase-Kasoa road”.
President Akufo-Addo gave the assurance the road would be completed before 2024.
Eugene Arhin’s MP intention
The President said it is a public knowledge that Eugene Arhin has the intentions of running for MP on the ticket of the NPP.
“If he is successful in the NPP parliamentary primaries, Nananom, I am confident that he will do an excellent job as a Member of Parliament for you, and I appeal to all of you to support him, if and when that time comes,” he entreated.
The President’s disclosure of the man who lobbied for these road projects in the Awutu Senya West constituency appears to have brought finality to the debate on social media on this issue.
Prior to the commissioning of the cylinder manufacturing plant, the President cut the sod for the official commencement of construction of the Bawjiase-Kasoa road.
“Already, under the Akufo-Addo Government, we have completed the construction of the Bawjiase-Adeiso Road and the Bawjiase-Swedru Road, all in this constituency. The construction of a district hospital, under Agenda 111, is also ongoing at Ahentia, not too far from here,” the President added.
Bawjiase-Kasoa Road
Expected to be completed in two years, this critical road project will link the Central Region to the southern part of the Eastern Region, and ease traffic off the Kasoa-Accra-Nsawam stretch.
Chiefs and people of the area had over the years made countless appeals to successive governments for the construction of that stretch.
The area has already seen the partial reconstruction of the 25km Bawjiase-Agona Swedru road, as well as the partial reconstruction of the 15km Bawjiase-Adeiso road, which are all part of a total of 70 kilometers of major trunks that have been completed throughout the region since 2017.
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